Accelerating AIX: Performance Tuning for Programmers and Systems Administrators [Paperback]

Rudy Chukran (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0201633825 | ISBN-13: 978-0201633825 | Publication Date: March 30, 1998 | Edition: 1

As an AIX system administrator or programmer, you know that performance tuning is critical to ensuring that your operating system meets the demands placed on today's computer systems and LAN operations. However, the methods of tuning have often been difficult to divine without expert assistance. In Accelerating AIX, Rudy Chukran shares AIX know-how, experience, and insight gained from spending more than ten years as one of IBM's tuning experts. This comprehensive book provides key information for both system administrators and application programmers, with: full coverage of monitoring, diagnostic, and development tools; remedies for performance slowdowns; techniques for relieving LAN bottlenecks; and proven methodologies for isolating, analyzing, and solving performance problems.

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From the Publisher

As an AIX system administrator or programmer, you know that performance tuning is critical to ensuring that your operating system can meet the demands placed on today's computer systems and LAN operations. However, the methods of tuning have often been difficult to divine without expert assistance. In Accelerating AIX, Rudy Chukran shares his AIX know-how, experience and insight gained from spending over ten years as one of IBM's tuning experts.

In this comprehensive book you will find information for both system administrators and application programmers with comprehensive coverage of monitoring, diagnostic, and development tools; remedies for performance slowdowns; techniques for relieving LAN bottlenecks; and proven methodologies for isolating, analyzing, and solving performance problems.

A complete, one-stop reference, the book addresses topics such as: * AIX system design, emphasizing those areas where tuning is possible and most effective * System administration tools, including vmstat, iostat, sar, ps, AIX Monitor, Rmss, PDT, and more * CPU, memory, and disk-bound remedies, such as Schedtune, Time Slice, tuning memory overcommitment algorithm, and disk caching effects * LAN monitoring tools and remedies, including transmit and receive queues, send and receive buffers, MTU, Name Resolution, and Client and Server NFS Daemons. * Programming performance tools, such as XL compiler flags for numerous languages, dynamically and statically linked objects, various profilers, program visualizer, and techniques for implementing shared libraries * AIX system call remedies emphasizing interprocess communications and shared memory, for example, Pthread_mutex lock and unlock, Power PC Weak Memory Ordering, and Matrix Access Optimization

Drawing on his years of practical experience with AIX, the author then shows you "what to do when..." in a special chapter that discusses how to recognize and evaluate problems and plan and implement appropriate solutions using many of the tools and techniques presented.

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As an AIX system administrator or programmer, you know that performance tuning is critical to ensuring that your operating system meets the demands placed on today's computer systems and LAN operations. However, the methods of tuning have often been difficult to divine without expert assistance. In Accelerating AIX, Rudy Chukran shares AIX know-how, experience, and insight gained from spending more than ten years as one of IBM's tuning experts.

This comprehensive book provides key information for both system administrators and application programmers, with: full coverage of monitoring, diagnostic, and development tools; remedies for performance slowdowns; techniques for relieving LAN bottlenecks; and proven methodologies for isolating, analyzing, and solving performance problems.

A complete, one-stop reference, Accelerating AIX addresses topics such as:

• AIX system design, emphasizing those areas where tuning is possible and most effective
• System administration tools, including vmstat, iostat, sar, ps, AIX Monitor, Rmss, PDT, and more
• CPU, memory, and disk-bound remedies, such as Schedtune, Time Slice, tuning memory overcommitment algorithm, and disk caching effects
• LAN monitoring tools and remedies, including transmit and receive queues, send and receive buffers, MTU, Name Resolution, and Client and Server NFS Daemons
• Programming performance tools, such as XL compiler flags for numerous languages, dynamically and statically linked objects, various profilers, program visualizer, and techniques for implementing shared libraries
• AIX system call remedies emphasizing interprocess communications and shared memory (for example, Pthread_mutex lock and unlock, PowerPC Weak Memory Ordering, and Matrix Access Optimization)

Drawing on his years of practical experience with AIX, the author shows you "what to do when . . ." in a special chapter that discusses how to recognize and evaluate problems and plan and implement appropriate solutions using many of the tools and techniques presented.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (March 30, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201633825
• ISBN-13: 978-0201633825
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,838,409 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #11 in Books > Computers & Technology > Operating Systems > Unix > AIX

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars way too basic, December 6, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Accelerating AIX: Performance Tuning for Programmers and Systems Administrators (Paperback)

Just tamed down man pages for some very basic aix monitoring commands. Does not go into any of the ENV tunables or cover much theory or real-life examples on how changing things can effect the system. I don't know what I was expecting from such a thin book!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Delivers as promised, November 6, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Accelerating AIX: Performance Tuning for Programmers and Systems Administrators (Paperback)

I'm writing this review because I think the 1-star review below is unfair to the author. The various diagnostics tools are well explained and a good methodology is also given for using them. Possible bottlenecks and explained in detail; methods to detect them are given and remedies are proposed. Getting into more detail would be very difficult, since every AIX system is different. Using this book, any competent AIX admin should be able to get a badly performing AIX box to work near its optimal level. And if that's not enough, you'll know if you need more CPU, memory or disks to reach your performance goal.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Clearly defined and well written., June 24, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Accelerating AIX: Performance Tuning for Programmers and Systems Administrators (Paperback)

I am a relative newbi to the UNIX world and very new to AIX. In spite of that I found this book clearly defined and well written. Accelerating AIX helped to get my head wrapped around the AIX architecture. The examples were accurate and easy to follow while the figures were exactly what they were supposed to be. This book is a little advanced for me but between Accelerating AIX and The AIX Survival Guide I can't think of two better books on my desk.