In this online article Dr. Gunther digs down into the UNIX kernel to find out how load averages (the “LA Triplets”) are calculated and how appropriate they are as capacity planning metrics.
This is the final online article concerning the concept of application scalability. Here, you will learn how to determine value of the parameters that control scalability.
TeamQuest (now Vityl Capacity Management) provides unintrusive mechanisms for instrumenting
applications and analyzing application performance. Neil Gunther describes how to use
those mechanisms.