Archive for the ‘Solaris’ Category
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
In working with SiteScope of late, I've found that it doesn't always collect performance metrics the way I want to. More importantly, it can often turn a simple monitoring activity into a complex disaster. Take monitoring via JMX for example. In SiteScope, it has a rather complicated (and sometimes broken) ...
Posted in LoadRunner, PHP, Perl, Solaris, Ruby, SiteScope | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
HP LoadRunner Analysis is a free tool right? Well, maybe not "free, as in free beer", but you can certainly install the trial version of LoadRunner 9.x, and Analysis does not appear to be time limited.
All right, I realise that the Controller is time limited, so how do you go ...
Posted in LoadRunner, Solaris, Analysis, Tuning | 3 Comments »
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Recently I have been trying to determine what the impact of using MQ message persistence is on disk subsystem performance. There is alot of literature from IBM recommending ideal configurations to support MQ persistence, so I won't turn this into a post that recommends ideal settings. What I did want ...
Posted in MQ, Solaris, Hardware, Analysis, Tuning | 3 Comments »
Monday, December 18th, 2006
Recently I found myself in a performance test analyst role on a unix system with no access to customised tools for collecting performance statistics such as Compuware QALoad or Mecury LoadRunner. Not to worry, Solaris 9 comes with a bucket load of native tools that allow you to easily collect ...
Posted in Statistics, Solaris, Analysis, Tuning | No Comments »
