Oracle8 and UNIX performance tuning / Ahmed Alomari

CONTENT

1 Inside the UNIX Kernel
1.1 UNIX Internals
1.2 UNIX Architecture

2 Memory and processor tuning
2.1 UNIX memory model
2.2 Process memory model
2.3 Monitoring paging and swapping
2.4 Tuning paging
etc.

3 Configuring and tuning I/O
3.1 UNIX I/O Model
3.2 Logical volume manager
3.3 Partitioning the disks
3.4 Setting the stripe width
etc.

4 Application tuning: eliminating the SQL Bottleneck
4.1 Application architecture
4.2 Development environment
4.3 Tuning PRP* C Applications
4.4 The make file
etc.

5 Tuning an OLTP System
5.1 Performance monitoring
5.2 Tuning I/O
5.3 Latches and locks
5.4 Tuning redo
etc.

6 Tuning a decision support system (DSS)
6.1 The data warehouse
6.2 Requirements for a data warehouse
6.3 DSS Database design
6.4 Tuning I/O
etc.

7 Media recovery
7.1 The system is down
7.2 System architecture
7.3 Hardware requirements
7.4 Selecting the backup and recovery tools
etc.

8 NCA and objects
8.1 The network computing architecture
8.2 Oracle 8 Objects
etc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.