"Accelerating AIX" is designed to teach programmers and system administrators how to maximize and improve the factors that affect the performance of their AIX-compatible systems. Written by IBM's expert on AIX tuning, the title covers the newest version of AIX, 4.2. tuning is critical to ensuring that your operating system meets the demands placed on todays 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 IBMs 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
