HP-UX Tuning and Performance: Concepts, Tools and Methods

Author: Robert F. Sauers, Peter S. Weygant, Hewlett-Packard Professional Books
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ISBN: 0131027166
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR (07 July, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 44,975
Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5

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Customer Reviews

Rating: 5 out of 5
Pretty good overview
I enjoyed this book. I come from a Solaris background, which doesn't ship with tools such as glance. The authors gives in-depth insight into how to use this tool as well as many others. They also do an excellent job of giving in depth details of how HP processes I/O and handles hardware.

I did not want a book that issued commands and told you how to interpret them. Thankfully, this book doesn't do this. It gives a complete explanation as to how HP uses machine resources, and only then shows you how to use the tools to tune the box. This is great in my mind because you understand how it works and can draw your own conclusions. Overall, it is an excellent resource and is exactly what I was looking for.


Rating: 4 out of 5
a must-have book for all HP-UX administrator
The only book I can find in the market which talks about HP-UX tuning and an excellent one too ! It does not just cover HP-UX specific tools and methods but performance management methodology as well. I personally find it helpful and I am sure it's not just another "dust-collecting" book on the shelf.


Rating: 3 out of 5
MODEST BOOK ABOUT PERFORMANCE
This book is a fairly decent book about performance issues and is perfect for the beginner to the world of sys admininistration. However, as an experienced admin I found 85% of the material redundant or just plain common sense. The routine commands and compilation methods are geared to the begginer. There are few case studies and the ones listed were quite bland. The layout of the book was excellent though. Recommend to any one who is a beginner or who has not taken a performance tuning class. Joe Holbrook, CET, CNST Certified HP Technical Proffesional

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