AIX Tip of the Week: S/6000 And SP Performance Tuning

Audience: Systems Administrators

Date: February 8, 2001

A new "RS/6000 and SP System Performance Tuning" Redbook (SG24-5340) is available for download at

http://ibm.com/redbooks/abstracts/sg245340.html

This is an excellent book as it covers both theory and practical tuning suggestions. Some of the topics include:

• Basic Performance Settings
• Network, CPU, I/O, Adapter Tuning
• AIX Tools
• Problem Determination
• Common Performance Problems
• Tivoli, Web DB2 and Oracle Tuning