HP-UX Tuning and Performance

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)

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.