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Symbols, numbers A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X

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• back-to-back packets
• badcalls field, nfsstat -c
• badlen field, nfsstat -s
• bad line
• badxid field, nfsstat -c
• balancing hard disk activity
• base processor
• bdflush, ``Kernel parameters that you can change using configure'', ``How the buffer cache works''
• BDFLUSHR, ``Tuning disk I/O-bound systems'', ``Kernel parameters that you can change using configure''
• benchmarks
• BFREEMIN
• biod daemons, performance tuning
• blks/s field, sar -d, ``Identifying disk I/O-bound systems'', ``Viewing disk and other block I/O activity'', ``Identifying disk I/O-bound systems''
• block device, switch table size
• block I/O, viewing
• blocks field, swap -l
• boot, load extension, kernel parameters
• Boot Time Loadable Driver, kernel parameters
• bread/s field, sar -b
• bridges
• bswot/s field, sar -w, ``Viewing swapping and paging activity'', ``Case study: memory-bound software development system''
• BTLD, kernel parameters
• buffer cache
  • changing size at boot time
  • disk blocks read to
  • disk blocks written from
  • effect of large
  • finding size of
  • free list
  • hash queues, setting number of
  • hit rates
  • increasing available memory
  • increasing size of
  • number of reads from, ``Viewing buffer cache activity'', ``Increasing memory by reducing the buffer cache size''
  • number of writes to, ``Viewing buffer cache activity'', ``Increasing memory by reducing the buffer cache size''
  • position in memory of
  • reducing contention
  • reducing size of, ``Increasing memory by reducing the buffer cache size'', ``Tuning memory-bound systems'', ``Case study: memory-bound software development system''
  • too small
  • used by a database
  • used by system
  • viewing activity of
• buffer flushing daemon
• buffer header, STREAMS
• buffers
  • allocating character list, ``Kernel parameters that you can change using configure'', ``Kernel parameters that you can change using configure''
  • configuration string
  • increasing cache hit rate
  • kernel parameters
  • specifying age for filesystem updates
  • splitting threshold
  • writing to disk
• %busy field, sar -d, ``Identifying disk I/O-bound systems'', ``Viewing disk and other block I/O activity'', ``Case study: memory-bound software development system''
• buying hardware
• bwrit/s field, sar -b

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Symbols, numbers A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X

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