Few years ago Performance and Capacity was mainly a mainframe related job performed by MVS gurus. It entered the UNIX servers world around 1991 - 1992 time frame. It become very visible with the emergence of the WEB related applications servers. While in the MVS world was to expensive to waste system resources, in the WEB
Benchmarking
A standardized task to test the capabilities of various devices against each other for such measures as speed.
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Capacity Planning
Books,
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