Chapter 5. Survey of Unix Performance Tools
There are many different performance tools available for Unix systems in general and for HP-UX in particular. This chapter presents a broad overview of system performance tools by type. These tools provide information on the system's utilization of the major resources (CPU, memory, I/O, etc.), which is called global utilization. They also provide information on each process's utilization of these same system resources, and this is called per-process utilization. Certain tools provide additional capabilities as described in each section.
It is important to recall that any major application software package includes performance monitoring tools specific to that application. Since application tuning usually ...
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