HP-UX 11i Internals

Invaluable information for optimizing HP-UX performance, reliability, and efficiency

Find out how to approach system administration, tuning, and troubleshooting from a more informed perspective

For every HP-UX sysadmin, programmer, and performance specialist

PA-RISC architecture: register set, virtual memory, key instructions, and procedure calling conventions

HP-UX kernel organization: hardware-dependent and independent data structures

Process and thread management: proc tables, memory management, scheduling, and the complete process/thread lifecycle

System-wide memory resources: allocation and mapping to physical memory

HP-UX paging and swapping

Files and filesystems: traditional UNIX filesystems, HFS, VFS, and dynamic buffer cache

I/O and device management: addressing, DMA, interrupts, device files, I/O configuration, device driver assignments, and I/O request pathways

Logical Volume Management (LVM): abstracting physical disks from the disk I/O system

HP-UX multiprocessing: challenges, data structures, and interfaces

Kernel communication services: semaphores, message queues, shared memory, signals, and the kernel "callout" system

Signaling in complex threaded environments

System initialization, from vmunix to init: running HP-UX on diverse platforms