Performance depends specifically on the job at hand, and whilst short on detail, I would suspect that you want fast file systems and disks optimised for write speed, but that's probably less than half the story, and I'm guessing that whatever the rest of the details are, you will be trying to tune an IO Bound system, so perhaps googling for this will help
anyway, IBM have a pretty good primer for the different types of tuning you can do that goes reasonably in depth too http://safari.ibmpressbooks.com/013144753X On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Kyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can somebody recommend a reasonably comprehensive but straightforward > performance tuning article/HowTo/PDF/site I could read pls? > > Specifically, I am looking to perf-tune a dual-CPU RAID5 box used as a > backup server. > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Kind Regards > > Kyle > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
