[SunRescue] solaris7 i/o tuning

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 05:36:21AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   Hey folks...can anyone here with some solaris experience (James L?)
> give me any pointers for performance tuning on solaris7?  The machine
> is an Ultra30 (250MHz) w/512MB RAM.  The application is a somewhat
> large, primarily heavy-writing database application running MySQL
> v3.23.38.  Writes will be coming in in 30-50Kbyte chunks a few times
> per second from the network and the server must maintain real-time
> responsiveness.
>   Is there anything filesystem-wise that could be tuned to better
> accomodate this type of activity, given that I know the
> characteristics of the load?

Get the "Solaris Internals" book and the red "Solaris Performance
Tuning:  Java and the Internet" book.... Both from SunSoft Press.

If you're in a bind I can loan you my copies..

bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX