[SYMBOL] [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Z] bandwidth-delay product barriers (threads) base metric (SPECint_base95) base time quantum batch queuing programs bdflush command, high disk service times and benchmarking 2nd [See also testing] books about commercial workload databases decision support systems disks hdparm iozone multiple pass results tiobench e-commerce transactional web servers Linpack benchmarks memory lmbench STREAM MFLOPS (megaflops) MIPS SPEC benchmarks TCP (Transaction Processing Council) benchmarks terminal driven database environments user defined automation considerations problem set selection rule creation runtime selection web performance big O notation bits (data paths) blocked processes books application performance benchmarking computer architecture Java code optimization networking routing TCP Unix workload management booting processor failure and RAID devices bottlenecks disks blocked processes locating mutex locking Boyer-Moore searching algorithms branch delay slot (RISC processors) bridges broadcast frames buffer cache NFS UFS buffers receive send burst speed busses CompactPCI Fibre Channel connections multiprocessor systems PCI, architecture peripheral interconnect monitoring tools SBus architecture burst transfer size clock speed interrupt processing transfer mode SCSI addresses command queuing differential signaling termination transaction operations utilization busstat command, peripheral interconnect monitoring |