Accelerating AIX : Performance Tuning for Programmers and Systems Administrators

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Summary: Clearly defined and well written.
Review: I am a relative newbi to the UNIX world and very new to AIX. In spite of that I found this book clearly defined and well written. Accelerating AIX helped to get my head wrapped around the AIX architecture. The examples were accurate and easy to follow while the figures were exactly what they were supposed to be. This book is a little advanced for me but between Accelerating AIX and The AIX Survival Guide I can't think of two better books on my desk.

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Summary: Delivers as promised
Review: I'm writing this review because I think the 1-star review below is unfair to the author. The various diagnostics tools are well explained and a good methodology is also given for using them. Possible bottlenecks and explained in detail; methods to detect them are given and remedies are proposed. Getting into more detail would be very difficult, since every AIX system is different. Using this book, any competent AIX admin should be able to get a badly performing AIX box to work near its optimal level. And if that's not enough, you'll know if you need more CPU, memory or disks to reach your performance goal.

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Summary: way too basic
Review: Just tamed down man pages for some very basic aix monitoring commands. Does not go into any of the ENV tunables or cover much theory or real-life examples on how changing things can effect the system. I don't know what I was expecting from such a thin book!