Sun Performance and Tuning: Java™ and the Internet, Second Edition

List of Figures

Figure 1-1 Example Listing the Busiest Processes on a System

Figure 1-2 Setting up Cachefs and Checking for Large Files

Figure 1-3 Sample /etc/vfstab for Workstation Recipe

Figure 1-4 Sample /etc/system Kernel Tuning Parameters for a 128-Mbyte Solaris 2 NFS Server

Figure 1-5 Example /etc/system Entries for a Database Server

Figure 3-1 A Conceptual Model of Performance

Figure 3-2 Example iostat -x Disk Statistics

Figure 3-3 Saturation Points and the Relationship Between Performance Measures

Figure 3-4 Response Time Equations

Figure 3-5 How to Start Up System Accounting in Solaris 2

Figure 3-6 crontab Entry for Long-Term sar Data Collection

Figure 3-7 Example Data from sar Averages Tabulated with awk

Figure 3-8 Finding the Saturation Point