Re: BUFFERS: How high is too high?

In article <332C4ABD.C36@netcomuk.co.uk>, Ian Goddard <igoddard@netcomuk.co.uk> writes >Neil Truby wrote: >> > >I suggest you get hold of a copy of "System Performance Tuning" by >Loukides (an O'Reilly book, of course). > > >Ian You're giving away my secrets now (that the book I used!) :- System Performance Tuning By Mike Loukides O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. ISBN 0-937175-60-9 Price 18.50 pounds in the UK. I you have a Sun Solaris box also try :- Sun Performance and Tuning SPARC & Solaris Adrian Cockcroft SUN Microsystems ISBN 0-13-149642-5 Price 31.95 pounds in the UK. This covers SunOS 4.1 to Solaris 2.4....I only bought it last month and it occasionly mentions Solaris 2.5 as a future product (I have already done 2 Online installs on Solaris 2.5.1, one June last year!!). Adrian is good - he was a Systems Engineer for Sun and built a reputation as a specialist in SPARC and performance related issues. Here's now in Sun's Product Marketing Engineering Group and a major function of his role is to "create the technical information required to support Sun's System Engineers on a worldwide basis"...an engineer who can communicate!!!!! -- David Williams