Re: System Admin Performance Tuning Exam.

From: "Neil Truby" <ntruby@netcomuk.co.uk> > >Follow my handy hints for performance tuning and you won't go far wrong: I don't think this will help Tracy pass the exam, Neil... :-) > >Disk Layout & Configuration >Don't bother. You'll have EMC or similar, and it's it's all so highly >cached that it's run like greased lightning no matter what you do. > > >Tuning Informix Dynamic Server I/O >No single parameter, or combination thereof, makes one fiftieth as much >difference as a tweaking of BUFFERS. > >Hope this helps! > >Tracy Sweeney wrote in message <836aae$f25$1@news.xmission.com>... > > > >I am trying to pass the Informix Dynamic Server Performance Exam, and I >have failed it 3 times! > >One needs to have 84% to pass and I have received 78%, 80% & 80%. > > > >I seem to miss a couple of questions in each of the following area: > >Disk Layout & Configuration > >Tuning Informix Dynamic Server I/O > >Data Performance Strategies > >Tuning Client/Server & Distributed Communication > > > >Does anyone have any tips, hints or anything for me as I prepare to take >the exam one more time. Since I just failed it again this morning, I'm not >sure if I should try to take it again soon, or if I should take a month or >so and study, study, study! > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com