Performance and Capacity

Few years ago Performance and Capacity was mainly a mainframe related job performed by MVS gurus. It entered the UNIX servers world around 1991 - 1992 time frame. It become very visible with the emergence of the WEB related applications servers. While in the MVS world was to expensive to waste system resources, in the WEB world is to expensive not having enough resources to sustain a competitive response time. The field of Performance and Capacity is a cross bred between system Operating Systems and Application analysis and programming on one side and mathematical statistics on the other side.

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Quantitative System Performance - Introductory text on analytic computer performance models. Complete text is available as searchable PDF. Published in 1984.
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The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis - Raj Jain's 1992 text provides a comprehensive introduction. His site includes lecture notes for many chapters (but not all) and errata.
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University Classes on Computer Performance - Web sites for academic classes on computer performance. Typical contents include syllabi, readings, homework, and lecture notes. Useful to students, instructors and practitioners who want to review the basics.
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Internet Speed Boost Solutions - Modem tweaks and browser tips to speed up Internet access. Reports web accelerator software options which claim full optimization.
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CSIM Performance Simulator - Lockheed Martin ATL's CSIM is a general purpose discrete-event simulator for block diagram oriented systems. CSIM works with gcc to produce simulations for any domain.
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Stratton & English Software - Performance Specialists - Provider of Internet Software Services, specialising in Performance Investigations - including performance prediction, optimisation and testing.
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Future Star Services - Brief overview of some tools for performance measurement on UNIX systems.
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Web Search for Performance and Capacity Computers - News search for Performance and Capacity Computers - encyclopedia entries for Performance and Capacity Computers