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IBM TotalStorage DS6000 Series: Performance Monitoring and Tuning
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IBM TotalStorage DS6000 Series: Performance Monitoring and Tuning

by Cathy Warrick, Craig Gordon, Benoit Granier, Keitaro Imai, Rosemary McCutchen, Brannen Proctor, Jim Sedgwick, Paulus Usong, Mary Ann Vandermark, John Wickes
December 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
530 pages
18h 34m
English
IBM Redbooks
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Chapter 8. Open system servers - Linux for xSeries 301
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Multiple processes do random lseek(). The idea of using multiple processes is to always
have outstanding lseek() requests, so the device (disk) stays busy. Seek time is an
indication of how good your OS can order seeks and how fast your hardware actually can
do random accesses.
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򐂰 Source RPM (SuSE Linux)
򐂰 i386™ binary RPM (SuSE Linux 7.1+)
򐂰 Alpha binary RPM (SuSE Linux 7.1+)
Installation and compilation should be straightforward. For Linux, your easiest ...
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