System Performance Tuning2002

access patterns (disks)  

acctcom command, reviewing process accounting records  

ACK bit (TCP)  

adb command, kernel variable tuning  

address mask  

addresses

        frames (networks)  

       IP  

               duplicates  

       memory

               address space layout  

               limitations  

       SCSI bus  

       world wide name (Fibre Channel)  

algorithms

        asymptotic complexity measure  

       big O notation  

       Boyer-Moore searching  

       CRC (cyclical redundancy checking)  

       elevator  

       inode cache (UFS)  

       Kesslers Best Bin  

       Knuth-Morris-Pratt searching  

       Linux, epochs  

       majority consensus (Solstice DiskSuite)  

       Nagles   2nd  

       naive  

       page coloring  

       problem solving and  

       selecting  

       slow start (TCP)  

       string searching  

Alpha processors (DEC)  

       memory page size  

ALU (arithmetic and logic unit)  

application layer (OSI model)  

applications   [See also software]

       64-bit architecture  

       algorithms, selecting  

       analyzing

               compiling with profiling  

               executing with profiling  

               profiling  

       compiler flags

               floating-point behavior  

               Fortran  

               function pointers  

               UltraSPARC-III applications  

       multiprocessor systems, design issues  

       performance  

               books about  

               MIPS  

               ptime command  

               time command  

               timex command  

       profiling considerations  

       refactored code  

arbitrated loop Fibre Channel topology (FC-AL)  

architecture  

       64-bit   2nd  

       books about  

       disks  

       FC (Fibre Channel)  

       filesystems  

       FireWire  

       hardware level  

       IDE  

       interfaces  

       IPI (Intelligent Peripheral Interface)  

       levels of transformation  

       MBus  

       memory address space layout  

       memory hierarchy and caching  

       multiprocessor systems  

       networks  

       OSI model  

       peripheral buses  

       processors

               caching  

               clock rates  

               design basics  

               piplining  

               process scheduling  

       SCSI (Small Computer System Interface)  

       UFS (Unix Filesystem)  

       virtual memory  

       von Neumann model  

       XBus  

arithmetic and logic unit (ALU)  

arithmetic optimization  

arrays (disks)  

associative mapping  

asymptotic complexity measure  

asynchronous data transfers (SCSI)  

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)  

asynchronous writes (disks)  

ATA (AT Attachment)   [See IDE]

ATA Packet Interface (ATAPI)  

ATA-2 interface  

ATA-3 interface  

ATAPI (ATA Packet Interface)  

ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode)  

atomic operations  

attachment unit interface (AUI) cable  

attenuation (fiberoptic cabling)  

AUI (attachment unit interface) cable  

auto-negotiation (Ethernet)  

autodetection (RAID arrays)  

automounter (NFS)  

average memory utilization statistics  

average seek time (disks)  

average shared-memory space