Hp-Ux Tuning and Performance: Concepts, Tools and Methods (Hewlett-Packard Professional Books) - Softcover

Sauers, Robert F.; Weygant, Peter S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131027166 ISBN 13: 9780131027169

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1999

Synopsis

This volume provides the necessary information for maximizing HP- UX (a version of the Unix operating system) performance through general background, hardware and software performance concepts, reference material, and many examples and suggestions for application development and tuning. Sauers, a High Availability Solutions Architect, and Weygant, a Learning Products Engineer, both with Hewlett-Packard, discuss the key tradeoffs of performance between uniprocessor and SMP environments, and demonstrate practical ways to set up HP-UX systems so that measurements are representative of real-world performance. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

About the Author

ROBERT F. SAUERS is a High Availability Solutions Architect with HP. In 1989, he developed a course on HP-UX performance and tuning for HP staff and customers worldwide, and he has been enhancing that course ever since. He is currently responsible for in-depth technical consulting on performance and high availability with enterprise customers worldwide.

PETER S. WEYGANT is a Learning Products Engineer at HP. Formerly a professor of English, he has been a technical writer and consultant in the computer industry for the past seventeen years. He is author of Clusters for High Availability.

From the Back Cover

The “must-have” performance guide for every HP-UX administrator and developer!

HP-UX Tuning and Performance is the first book to take the guesswork out of maximizing HP-UX performance! This book introduces a comprehensive, systematic performance management methodology that addresses every stage in the lifecycle of an HP-UX system. Two of Hewlett-Packard's leading HP-UX performance experts present specific metrics, symptoms, and solutions for each key element of an HP-UX system, including hardware, the OS platform, and application development. Coverage includes:

• Identifying and addressing bottlenecks: CPU, memory, disk, network, and beyond.
• Key tradeoffs impacting performance in both uniprocessor and SMP environments
• Choosing the right performance metrics-and using them correctly
• Compiler optimization and application profiling
• Designing applications for maximum performance

HP-UX Tuning and Performance introduces the best generic UNIX and HP-UX specific tools for performance management and demonstrates practical ways to instrument HP-UX systems so that your measurements truly represent real-world performance. Whether you're an HP-UX sys admin, net admin, developer, or capacity planner, it's your complete guide to getting all the performance you paid for!

From the Inside Flap

Preface Maximizing the performance of Unix systems is a challenge that requires a specialized understanding of operating system behavior and an intimate acquaintance with system tools that assist in tuning. This book brings you some of this complex knowledge in chapters that provide general background, hardware and software performance concepts, reference material on performance tools, and detailed practical suggestions for application development and tuning. Part 1 offers a performance management methodology as a way of introducing the world of performance management. Part 2 presents an array of performance monitoring tools, some of them specific to HP-UX, and some of them available on other Unix operating systems as well. Part 3 describes bottleneck analysis, and relates operating system concepts to tuning strategies that use the tools presented in Part 2. Finally, Part 4 sketches the complex topic of application tuning. Tuning the operating system is often not enough; designing for performance is equally important. Hewlett-Packard's HP 9000 computer systems (both Series 700 workstation and Series 800 servers) use the HP-UX operating system. This is a version of Unix that is based on both System V Unix and BSD (Berkeley) Unix. The authors are most familiar with HP-UX, and therefore, the specific operating system architecture and tuning suggestions presented in this book apply directly to HP-UX. However, HP-UX conforms to the IEEE Portable Operating System Standard (Posix) P1003.1 and P1003.2. It also conforms to the System V Interface Definition (SVID) Release 3 (based on System V Release 4) and the X/Open Portability Guide. Because of this conformance to both de jure and de facto standards by the HP-UX operating system, the concepts presented in this book may be applied to other versions of the Unix operating system, although the specifics may differ.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0131027166
• ISBN 13: 9780131027169
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296