Appendix A. Performance Tools Alphabetical Reference
This appendix contains a complete alphabetized listing of all the performance tools discussed in this book. Each tool will be presented in a chart with a standard format that summarizes the major points about the tool and highlights unique metrics.
Unix performance tools come from many sources:
System V. System V tools concentrate on the three major system resources: CPU, memory, and disk. While most provide only global performance information, several do provide limited per-process information.
BSD. As with the System V tools, tools from Berkeley concentrate on CPU, memory, and disk resources, and display mostly global metrics.
Hewlett-Packard. HP has provided a variety of tools for HP-UX ...
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