menges@unc.UUCP (John Menges) (04/25/85)
I'm gearing up to spend a large amount of time studying the general problem of performance on our VAX systems running 4.2bsd UNIX (785s, 780s, and 750s). I'm interested in any other work that has been done in this area that people are willing to share, including: 1. Hardware solutions to performance problems that have been particularly successful or unsuccessful. Hardware configuration considerations that I might find useful. 2. Results of system monitoring and kernel profiling. Kernel changes to improve performance. 3. Profiling results of and/or modifications to commonly used standard utilities to improve performance. 4. Techniques and software for doing load balancing between machines. 5. Batching, serializing, and load control software. 6. Alternatives to commonly used standard utilities which are more efficient, e.g., smaller editors (WORDSTAR?), alternative mail and news systems, etc. 7. Improved system monitoring commands (ala ps, vmstat, iostat, mon). 8. Improved system accounting commands (ala sa). 9. Optimizing C compilers. 10. Compilers or translators or translation aids for sh and csh. 11. Software development/analysis tools (profilers, cross-referencers, runtime debuggers, interpreters, editors, etc). 12. Publications (books, magazine articles, papers on UNIX performance or performance in general). Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Mail to menges@unc.