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HP-UX 11i Tuning and Performance
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HP-UX 11i Tuning and Performance

by Robert F. Sauers, Chris P. Ruemmler, Peter S. Weygant
March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
14h 38m
English
Pearson
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3.4. Identifying Bottlenecks

With all these factors in mind, the goal of data interpretation and analysis is to determine if there is a particular bottleneck. Once a particular bottleneck is identified, tuning to improve performance can be initiated. Characteristics of bottlenecks are:

  • A particular resource is saturated.

  • The queue for the resource grows over time.

  • Other resources may be starved as a result.

  • Response time is not satisfactory.

3.4.1. Resource Saturation

Resource saturation is often thought of as 100% utilization. The entire resource is consumed. Additional requests for the resource are required to wait. However, this is not sufficient as proof of a bottleneck. Two examples reinforce this point.

Disk utilization is determined by periodically ...

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