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• Book title: Performance Guide
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• Chapter 5, Tuning I/O resources
  • Subsystems that affect disk and other I/O
  • How the buffer cache works <--------- YOU ARE HERE
    • Viewing buffer cache activity
    • Increasing disk I/O throughput by increasing the buffer cache size
    • Positioning the buffer cache in memory
    • Tuning the number of buffer cache hash queues
  • How the namei cache works
  • How multiphysical buffers are used
  • The mechanics of a disk transfer
  • Overcoming performance limitations of hard disks
  • Tuning virtual disk performance
  • Serial device resources
  • Case study: I/O-bound multiuser system
  • Case study: unbalanced disk activity on a database server