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Index

Symbols, numbers A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X

packets
- collisions, ``Monitoring TCP/IP performance'', ``Monitoring TCP/IP performance''
- corrupted
- output errors
pages
page stealing daemon, vhand
paging
- affecting I/O throughput
- heavy activity
- indicating memory shortage
- memory
- pages added to the free list
- pages not found in memory
- used by system
Path MTU discovery, ``TCP/IP parameters'', ``TCP/IP parameters''
perfect scaling
performance
- buying hardware
- collecting data
- defining goals
- formulating a hypothesis
- getting more specifics
- hard disk
- hardware considerations
- introduced
- making adjustments
- managing
- managing the workload
- tunable kernel parameters
- tuning applications
- tuning methodology
- upgrading hardware
performance tuning, quick guide
piece structure
ping(ADMN)
PIO (programmed I/O)
PLOWBUFS, ``Positioning the buffer cache in memory'', ``Kernel parameters that you can change using configure''
PMTU discovery, ``TCP/IP parameters'', ``TCP/IP parameters''
_POSIX_CHOWN_RESTRICTED
PPP
- asyh parameters
- mbcl parameters
- performance tuning
preemption variable, ``Controlling process preemption -- preemptive'', ``Controlling cache affinity -- cache_affinity''
PRFMAX
primove variable
priority
- table of values
- types of
process
- context
- examining activity of
- finding virtual size of
- fixed-priority
- heap size
- kernel parameters
- limiting number of
- memory management, paging and swapping
- nice value
- priority of
- regions
- scheduling
- specifying maximum time slice
processes, reducing number of
process table
- allocating entries in
- viewing
proc-sz field, sar -v
profiling, ``Viewing system call activity'', ``Software factors that influence performance''
profiling files, in databases
programmed I/O, PIO
protocol stack, implementation of
ps(C)
- -el
- using
pseudo-ttys, configuring
putbuf buffer
PUTBUFSZ