Chapter 10. Network Bottlenecks

This chapter describes major bottlenecks related to networking in HP-UX. A review of some of the basic concepts of networking for HP-UX is followed by a description of typical symptoms, techniques for diagnosing them, and methods for tuning. Here are the topics:

  • Network Hardware Descriptions

  • Review of Network Concepts

  • Network Access Methods

  • Networked File Systems

  • Clusters

  • Network Metrics

  • Types of Network Bottlenecks

  • Expensive System Calls

  • Tuning Network Bottlenecks

  • Network-Related Tuneable Parameters

  • Web Server Issues

  • Database Server Issues

Dealing with network I/O often involves many choices. The wisdom of Rule #2, “Performance tuning always involves a trade-off,” is good to remember in this arena.

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