The recently acquired Halcyon Software solutions reduce the complexity and cost of monitoring, automating, and reporting on core applications and processes on IBM i, AIX, Linux, and Windows servers.
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.