April 1998
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
16h 11m
English
book
Sun Performance and Tuning: Java™ and the Internet, Second Edition
by Adrian Cockcroft, Richard Pettit
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Chapter 8. Disks
The art of tuning modern computer systems is becoming more and more dependent on disk I/O tuning. This chapter shows how to measure and interpret the disk utilization figures and suggests ways of improving I/O throughput. The chapter describes many different types of disks and controllers found on Sun systems and also talks about tuning file systems and combining disks into stripes and mirrors.