Mike Loukides

The easy way to solve a performance problem--and the one to which hardware manufacturers love to call attention--is to apply more horsepower to the application in question. It\'s safe to bet that a server upgrade will speed things up. True information technology professionals, however, won\'t take the easy way out when dealing with an increased workload for older systems. They\'ll do their best to wring top performance (with required reliability) from existing hardware, thus improving their organizations\' return on capital investment and demonstrating their own engineering skills. The second edition of System Performance Tuning offers advice on where to look for bottlenecks in applications--both local and networked--that run under Unix....

Издательство: O'Reilly & Associates
Дата выхода: декабрь 2009

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? In the current economic downturn, performance tuning takes on a new importance. It allows system administrators to make the best use of existing systems and minimize the purchase of new equipment. Well-tuned systems save money and time that would otherwise be wasted dealing with slowdowns and errors. Performance tuning always involves compromises; unless system administrators know what the compromises are, they can\'t make intelligent decisions. Tuning is an essential skill for system administrators who face the problem of adapting the speed of a computer system to the...

Издательство: O'Reilly & Associates
Дата выхода: май 2002