Re: Re: Out-Of-Date Optimizations? New Idioms? RAM vs. CPU

[Anonymous Monk]

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Could you recommend any good books/articles/etc on system performance tuning? I've read 'system performance tuning' and 'web performance tuning' from O'Reilly but didn't find them all that useful. Thanks.

[Abigail-II]

I've seen of useful, or useful looking books about Solaris system performance tuning - most of them printed by SUN. I've found the course material of HP Education quite useful. System performance tuning is hard, and system specific. I would distrust any book that claims to discuss system performance tuning without focussing on a specific OS. I'd also distrust any "cookbook".

Go for something that spends a lot of time analysing performance problems, that discusses performance measuring tools (like glance for HP-UX), and goes into detail explaining how the system works.

Abigail

[Anonymous Monk]

I was actually considering a few Solaris books, I'll check them out.

Thanks for the informative (as usual) advice :)