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From: john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Request for references - SAR performance utility
Summary: Try Prentice Hall as well
Keywords: SAR, capacity planning, tuning
Message-ID: <219@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jan 89 16:17:05 GMT
References: <648@sactoh0.UUCP> <5239@homxc.ATT.COM>
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Organization: WA3WBU, Marysville,PA
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In article <5239@homxc.ATT.COM>, dwc@homxc.ATT.COM (Malaclypse the Elder) writes:
> In article <648@sactoh0.UUCP>, fbinlow@sactoh0.UUCP (Frank B. Inlow) writes:
> > Can anyone refer me to published material which gives more than
> > general information on practical use of SAR for computer system
> > analysis?  For example, as input to a queueing network model.
> > 

   I just bought a copy of Unix System V/386, System Administrators Guide
 by Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-940891-6. In the back it has an excellent
 chapter on performance tuning. It goes over each output from Sar, what
 it means and how you can utilize the information to fine-tune various 
 buffer sizes, partitions, etc. It is the best source of Sar and performance
 information I've ever come across. While the manual is mainly for V/386,
 the sar information would apply to most releases.


						John



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