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

by Peter S. Weygant, Robert F. Sauers, Hewlett-Packard Professional Books

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0131027166
• ISBN13: 9780131027169
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Good Book on tuning

This is a good book on HP-UX performance and tuning. I think the printing could be better and that is the only reason I am giving it 4 stars. Otherwise it is a 5 star book.

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.

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.

Material is pretty good....which it was presented better.

The more I read this book, the better I find it. There's alot of really good material that it's almost impossible to know about outside of the HP Labs.However, as a SA/Consultant..the book has confirmed the most common reason for systems that have bottlenecks.....it's because they are written and compiled by programmers who are not aware of HP-UX internals.Most of the performance bottlenecks therefore, come way after a Unix Administrator whould be able to do much about them. Perhaps, this book would most benefit the software developers who write or port code.