Vivek
   Here is a search string that should work. The list server will probably
break it into two pieces, so you'll have to patch it back together. Good
luck on your project.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=1G60ZMKA1
J&isbn=007222360X

Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
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Book "Oracle High-Performance Tuning with STATSPACK" by Don Burleson 

What is the PUBLISHER / Any Other Details ?

Thanks indeed Dennis .


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Vivek - This sort of thing must be used with some intelligence. It is
difficult to provide guidelines that work for all sites. Trending is very
important. If a lightly loaded site that suddenly experiences high
statistics, that may something that needs reviewed. Another site may always
be highly loaded so the statistics may always look abysmal compared to the
lightly loaded site. Time of day is also important. Ideally you collect
statistics 24x7 and compare the trends to user events. And see how the
statistics change over time. Trends are much more important than single
statistics out of context. Don Burleson devotes several chapters to
operating system indicators and trending in his book "Oracle
High-Performance Tuning with STATSPACK".
   In the end, the critical measurement is user response time. If the users
think performance stinks, then by definition it stinks. Perception is
reality. Users don't care if the problem is with the network, the server,
the Web server, the application server, or the database.  If you have an
opportunity to configure a test that simulates what the users see, that is
ideal. Then when the users say that performance is bad, then you can show
them your trend line. Those sort of facts saves a lot of argument. If your
trend shows performance was bad, you will be inclined to check it out.
Otherwise, the user may be convinced that it was their perception.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 2:48 AM
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Hi

We are Trying to make a General Document to be forwarded to Customers which
should allow them to know when they are performing far below normal

At the Operating System Level we are trying to Identify Practical
Critical Values which when below respective Threshold Limits which 
would give the alert about a potential problem .

We are Looking for these in Areas of :-

1) Network Thruput 
2) Memory Utilization 
3) Swap Utilization
4) IO Utilization

Would apreciate actual Commands used (preferably those Generic across
different O.S.)  & respective Critical Threshold Limit Values for the Above 

EXAMPLE For Network thruput Between APPLICATION Server machine & Database
Server Machine 
what , by experience , are the parameters & their respective Minimum
threshold Values which would let us know that there is a Severe problem
therein ? 

NOTE - We have generally been measuring this by Manually ftping a Big
File , about 100MB , between APP & DB Server machines , noting the thruput 
Displayed in (kbytes/s) on Completion & Converting this Value to Mega Bits /
Second
(i.e. MBPS) . If this Value is Less than 40MBPS for a 100 MBPS Cable we
know there is a PRoblem with Network Bandwidth.

Miscellaneous - Some Threshold Limits known to us :-

Command - vmstat 5 3
Virtual Memory Statistics: (pagesize = 8192)
  procs      memory        pages                            intr
cpu
  r   w   u  act free wire fault  cow zero react  pin pout  in  sy  cs us sy
id
  3  1K  34 266K  84K  32K  811M 132M 339M   635 193M    0 188 28K  1K 16  7
77
  3  1K  33 267K  84K  32K   410   71  151     0  131    0 494  2K  4K 4  2
93
  3  1K  36 269K  82K  32K  5459 1720  807     0 3016    0 471  3K  4K 37  5
58


1) Utilization of CPU due to Operating System (Internal) Operations (%sy)
Exceeding Utilization due to user Applications (%us)

2) Average Wait of CPU for IO to Complete  (%wio) Greater than (>) 30 % [
From
sar Command ]

3) Utilization of CPU due to Operating System (Internal) Operations (%sy) >
30 %

4) CPU Utilization - If  Total CPU  Utilization  Consistently Near 0%
Idle Or further Coupled with any of the following :-
   a)Abnormally High Wait for IO ( > 30 %) [ From sar Command ]
   b)Abnormally High  Operating System CPU Utilization ( > 30 %)
   c)Abnormally High Run Queue ["r" > (3 * Number of CPUs)]

THANKS
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