duke@analog.com (Kerry Duke) (04/29/91)
I am new to the net so please excuse me if this has been discussed many, many times. My manager is requiring me to conduct some detailed analyses of the "performance" of each of our systems (SUN file servers and workstations) before he will approve of any upgrades (sounds like a resonable thing to do if you were in management, right). However, it is not as easy as I or hemight lead you to believe. Has anyone ever compiled a suite of tests (besides the lin-pack, etc....) which indicate whether memory, disk i/o, nfs i/o, or cpu speed are the limiting factors behind performance problems? If you can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it. Thanks in advance. Kerry Duke System Manager Analog Devices Inc. Norwood, Massachusetts Email: kerry.duke@analog.com UUCP: uunet!analogdv!kerry.duke
kean@talon.UCS.ORST.EDU (Kean Stump) (04/30/91)
The O'Reilly Nutshell book "System Performance Tuning" by Mike Loukides has pretty much what you want. Costs $25 US and well worth it, as are the rest of the Nutshell series. 800-338-6887 or +1 707 829 0515 e-mail is nuts@ora.com or uunet!ora!nuts I have no relation to O'Reilly & Associates except as a satisfied customer, even if I didn't get my perl t-shirt *) Kean -- Kean Stump (503)-737-4740 OSSHE Network Operations Center DOMAIN: kean@ucs.orst.edu Oregon State University UUCP: hplabs!hp-pcd!orstcs!kean *** OSU knows nothing about my opinions. Absolutely nothing. So, don't ask. ***