Download or read book System Performance Tuning written by Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "System Performance Tuning" covers two distinct areas: performance tuning, or the art of increasing performance for a specific application, and capacity planning, or deciding what hardware best fulfills a given role. This book focuses on the operating system, the underlying hardware, and their interactions.