UNIX Tips Index
Why do measurements from ‘iostat’ not agree with ‘filemon’ in AIX?
SMT can distort Process Accounting measurements in UNIX
Paging metrics on different UNIX flavors
How do I manage the size of the Solaris extended accounting file?
Why do numbers appear instead of names when running ps –efZ in a Solaris Global Zone?
Why won’t my application run from crontab?
Solaris
I’m using Solaris Containers and I think the network card is a bottle neck. How can I tell?
Solaris Containers – How can I check my Zone memory?
I’m trying to monitor my Linux server and I can’t find sar?
How do I find out what size my directories are?
How do I find out how many files are in my directory?
Don’t be SKEWered by SMT!
Sun Logical Domains – Reporting domains core utilization
Solaris Containers – Zone reporting use the “Z” switch
How can I obtain useful performance data from a Linux system?
How do I determine the amount of physical memory installed on my UNIX system?
Using Perl to "soak" your CPU
What is the best way to delete a large number of files from a sub-directory?
What is a good Rule of Thumb for limiting I/Os per spindle in a Raid configuration?
How can I determine the number of processors on my UNIX system? - continued
How can I determine the number of processors on my UNIX system?
How can I help my Oracle Performance by using Unix Raw Devices?
My system is fitted with fast disks so why don't I seem to achieve the maximum data throughput?
Why should I worry about disk fragmentation? I'm using UNIX?
Are you causing a c(h)ronic bottleneck?
How do you maintain a pacct file that does not live in the "standard" location?
How can I deduce UNIX disk service times from other figures?
How big should the difference between CPU usage recorded by SAR and by UNIX process accounting be?
I want to use Unix Process Accounting but how do I manage the space it uses?
How significant is the CPU % I/O Wait Measurement?
Block Size - A Redundant Consideration?
My SysAdmin doesn't want me to turn accounting on!
What Does the Queue Length Tell Me?
Performance Killers - Rogue Processes
Why is swapping a bad thing?
Don't be Led Down the Wrong Path!
What Will I Get by Adding Another CPU?
Why should I turn UNIX accounting on?
Why does Metron say that disk drives shouldn't run at more than 40% utilization?
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