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...

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...