Publisher: O'Reilly, 1990, 313 pages
ISBN: 0-937175-60-9
Keywords: System Administration
System Performance Tuning answers one of the most fundamental questions you can ask about your computer: How can I get it to do more work without buying more hardware? If you have ever used a computer, you have wished it was faster, particularly when it was under heavy load. If your system gets sluggish when you start a big job, if you seem to spend hours waiting for remote file access to complete, if your system stops dead when several users are active, you need to read this book. Some performance problems require you to buy a bigger or faster computer, but many can be solved by making better use of the resources you already have.
This book takes a holistic approach to system performance. There are no simple solutions to performance problems. Without understanding how programs compete for system resources, you only push the problems from one part of the system to another. Performance tuning always involves compromises. Unless you know what the compromises are, you can't make intelligent decisions. Sometimes, education is the solution: when your system's users know more efficient ways of doing their work, performance problems will disappear. And sometimes, you just have to buy more hardware. But, if you've done your homework, you'll know what hardware you really need.
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