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P6 processor (Intel)  
packet-switched protocols  
packets   2nd  
       collisions  
       flow control  
       fragmentation  
       MSS (maximum segment size )  
       payload-free  
       size distribution  
       time-to-live  
page scanner  
paging  
       compared to swapping  
       disk problems and  
       free list  
       page coloring  
       swap space  
               anonymous memory  
               sizing  
       virtual memory  
parallel member write policies (disk mirroring)  
parameters
       caches, changing  
       Ethernet, changing  
       maxcontig  
       maxusers  
               kernel tables  
       minfree  
       pt_cnt  
       rotational delay  
parity context (disk striping)  
parity-protected striping  
parity-protected striping with independent disks  
pattern analysis, networks  
       data transfer patterns  
       inverse request-response  
       message passing patterns  
       packet size distribution  
       request-response  
payload-free packets  
PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) bus
       architecture  
       CompactPCI  
PCI Special Interest Group web site  
PCI-to-PCI bridge  
perf file, sar command, enabling  
performance accounting
       sar command  
       SE Toolkit software  
performance analysis tools  
performance instrumentation counters (PICs)  
performance tuning
       definition  
       dynamic performance analysis  
       environment, importance of  
       Heisenbergs Principle of Uncertainty  
       I/O subsystem, importance of  
       latency  
       problems with, overview of  
       proxy servers  
       resource utilization  
       single- user workstations
               filesystems  
               kernel  
               swap space  
       static factors  
       swap space  
       test design  
       throughput and latency considerations  
       trade-offs and  
       web servers  
               disks  
               filesystems  
               kernel  
               memory  
               network sizing  
               swap space  
       workgroup servers  
               disks  
               filesystems  
               kernel  
               memory  
               NFS  
               swap space  
Peripheral Component Interconnect bus   [See PCI bus]
peripherals
       interconnect performance monitoring tools  
       PCI bus architecture  
       SBus architecture  
persistent superblocks (Linux md package)  
physical address  
physical layer (OSI model)  
       cables and connectors  
       interfaces  
PICs (performance instrumentation counters)  
PIO (programmed I/O)  
pipes, sticky bit  
piplining  
       conditional branches  
platters  
plugs  
pmap command, estimating memory requirements with  
point-to-point Fibre Channel topology  
political considerations, workload management  
PowerPC processors, memory page size  
preempting threads  
prefetching , application optimization and  
presentation layer (OSI model)  
prex command
       I/O tracing  
       restarting  
priocntl command, process priorities, adjusting  
priority paging  
priority, processes
       adjusting   2nd  
       determining   2nd  
private IP addresses  
probe-based application analysis  
       Solaris TNF  
problem solving
       algorithms  
       hardware level architecture  
       levels of transformation  
       memory hierarchy and  
       programming languages and  
/proc directory (Linux), kernel variable tuning  
process accounting  
       enabling  
       overhead  
       records, reviewing  
process filtering, I/O tracing  
process monitoring
        prstat command  
       top command  
process queues, viewing state  
process scheduling
       classes  
       dispatch queues  
       dispatch tables, tuning  
       dynamic priority  
       Linux  
       priorities
               adjusting   2nd  
               determining   2nd  
       real-time  
       scheduling classes, listing  
       SMP systems  
       Solaris  
       Solaris threading model  
       static priority  
processes
       blocked  
       free list memory management  
       memory
               estimating requirements  
               monitoring consumption  
               ps command  
               uax command  
       memory usage, displaying  
       virtual address spaces  
processors   [See also mulitprocessor systems; SMP]
       architecture, specifying with compiler options  
       cache hierarchy  
       cache mapping  
       cache organization  
       cache size anomalies  
       cache-busters  
       caching  
       CISC design  
       clock rates  
       conditional branches  
       CPI (cycles per instruction)  
       critical path  
       DEC Alpha  
               memory page size  
       design basics  
       dispatch queues  
       failure  
       FISC design  
       graphics support  
       I/O wait time  
       idle time  
       improvements in  
       instruction stages  
       Intel 80x86, memory page size  
       Intel P6  
       internal clock rate  
       load average  
       load, vmstat command  
       locality  
       metrics, MIPS  
       microSPARC, memory page size  
       MIPS, memory page size  
       MMX extensions  
        mpstat command  
       optimum load considerations  
       performance monitoring  
       performance, importance of  
       piplining  
       PowerPC, memory page size  
       process accounting  
       process queues  
       process scheduling  
        psrinfo command  
       RISC design, second generation  
       sets, creating with psrset command  
       SPARC
               LDSTUB instructions  
               memory page size  
       speed compared to memory speed  
       spin locking  
       state, changing with psradm command  
       Sun E-series  
       Sun I-series  
       superpiplined  
       superscalar   2nd  
       SuperSPARC, memory page size  
       system time  
       system time compared to user time  
       time command operation  
       Transmeta Crusoe   2nd  
       UltraSPARC, memory page size  
       user time  
       variable length instructions  
       VIS extensions  
       vmstat command  
       von Neumann model  
profile feedback (compilers)  
profiler-based application analysis  
       GNU gprof  
profiling
       application analysis  
       compiling with  
       executing with  
program counter  
programmed I/O (PIO)  
programming code   [See also applications]
       algorithms
               Boyer-Moore searching  
               Knuth-Morris-Pratt searching  
               string searching  
       analyzing  
               ptime command  
               time command  
               timex command  
       arithmetic optimization  
       compiler optimization considerations  
       compilers, profile feedback  
       fast compiler option  
       linked list cache-busting  
       loop optimization  
       microstate accounting, enabling  
       non-unit stride cache-busting  
       pitfalls  
       poor, reasons for  
       string optimization  
       TICK register, enabling  
       timing information, gethrtime system call  
       xarch compiler option  
       xchip compiler option  
       xcrossfile compiler option  
       xdepend compiler option  
       xinlining compiler option  
       xO compiler option  
       xprefetch compiler option  
       xsfpconst compiler option  
       xvector compiler option  
programming languages, problem solving and  
promiscuous mode (network interfaces)  
protocol field (IP headers)  
protocols
       circuit-switched  
       IP  
       NLM (Network Lock Manager)  
       packet-switched  
       routing  
       TCP  
               three-way handshake  
       UDP  
proxy servers, tuning  
prstat command, process monitoring  
prtconf command, synchronous transfer rate (SCSI)  
ps command
       process memory consumption  
       process priorities, determining   2nd  
psradm command, processor state, changing  
psrinfo command
       processor failure monitoring  
       processor information  
psrset command, processor sets, creating  
pt_cnt parameter  
ptime command  
       application analysis  
       disk write throttle  



System Performance Tuning2002
System Performance Tuning2002
ISBN: N/A
EAN: N/A
Year: 2004
Pages: 97

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