Tuning for Performance

This chapter provides tuning tips that you can use to improve database performance.

Topics covered in this chapter include:

• Tuning VxVM
• Tuning VxFS
• Tuning Oracle Databases
• Tuning HP-UX

Use the tuning tips and information provided in this chapter in conjunction with other more in-depth publications, such as:

• Oracle Performance Tuning Tips & Techniques (Osborne McGraw-Hill)
• Oracle9i Installation Guide (Oracle Corporation)
• Oracle 10gInstallation Guide (Oracle Corporation)
• Oracle Performance Tuning (O'Reilly & Associates)
• Oracle Performance Tuning and Optimization (Sams Publishing)
• VERITAS Volume Manager Administrator's Guide, chapter on "VxVM Performance Monitoring"