[comp.unix.admin] Tuning tools & checklists wanted

dick@cca.ucsf.edu (Dick Karpinski) (09/14/90)

Currently I'm dealing with NeXT, DEC VAX 11/750 and planning
for some IBM RISC/6000 machines for shared use.  Each of these
machines slows down sometimes.  I'd like to know why.  Then of
course, I'll want to know how to fix it.  But for now, I seek
only to locate/acquire some sensible approach to identifying
the bottlenecks in a shared use machine.  If there were a list
of things to check or a handbook on tuning modern Unix systems
I'd like to hear about them.

I have "sysstat" on the Mt. Xinu 4.3 on the VAX but nothing on
the NeXT or the RISC/6000.  What do you do?

Dick