HP-UX 11i Internals

Chris CooperChris Moore

• Invaluable information for optimizing HP-UX performance, reliability, and efficiency

• Find out how to approach system administration, tuning, and troubleshooting from a more informed perspective

• For every HP-UX sysadmin, programmer, and performance specialist

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HP-UX 11i Internals

HP-UX under the hood: practical insight for optimization and troubleshooting

To maximize the performance, efficiency, and reliability of your HP-UX sysem, you need to know what's going on under the hood. HP-UX 11i Internals goes beyond generic UNIX internals, showing exactly how HP-UX works in PA-RISC environments.

HP experts Cooper and Moore systematically illuminate HP-UX kernel data structures and algorithms for memory management, process and thread scheduling, I/O control, files and file systems, resource management, and more. They focus on HP-UX 11i, while also offering valuable insight for those using earlier versions.

• PA-RISC architecture: register set, virtual memory, key instructions, and procedure calling conventions

• HP-UX kernel organization: hardware-dependent and independent data structures

• Process and thread management: proc tables, memory management, scheduling, and the complete process/thread lifecycle

• System-wide memory resources: allocation and mapping to physical memory

• HP-UX paging and swapping

• Files and filesystems: traditional UNIX filesystems, HFS, VFS, and dynamic buffer cache

• I/O and device management: addressing, DMA, interrupts, device files, I/O configuration, device driver assignments, and I/O request pathways

• Logical Volume Management (LVM): abstracting physical disks from the disk I/O system

• HP-UX multiprocessing: challenges, data structures, and interfaces

• Kernel communication services: semaphores, message queues, shared memory, signals, and the kernel "callout" system

• Signaling in complex threaded environments

• System initialization, from vmunix to init: running HP-UX on diverse platforms

Whether you administer HP-UX, tune it, troubleshoot it, or write kernel modules for it, you'll find HP-UX 11i Internals indispensable.

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A very good text on kernel level - 2004-03-07
Reviewer Rating:
I have read other books related to UNIX internels but this is the first one specific to HP-UX. The auther has done the job very well. It was interesting to see internal data structures. I would recommend this book for people who want to understand HP-UX in depth.

HP-UX 11i Internals (Hewlett-Packard Professional Books) - 2005-05-13
Reviewer Rating:
If a deeper understanding of HP-UX is required, then I strongly suggest the "HP-UX 11i Internals," with 432 pages of material for concepts from 2004 by Chris Cooper, January 22, 2004.

The first level is the HP-UX Certified System Administrator (CSA.)

There is a new version, "HP-UX CSA : Official Study Guide and Reference (2nd Edition,)" with 1072 pages of material for concepts from 2004 by Rafeeq Ur Rehman, August 25, 2004.

The "first version" book, "HP Certified: HP-UX System Administration," with 832 pages of material for concepts from 2000 by Rafeeq Rehman May 31, 2000. This book, still holds its value as shows in the pricing.

http://www.hp.com/education/currpath/hp-ux_certification.html

The next level is the HP-UX Certified System Engineer (CSE.)

There's a HP-UX CSE book, "HP-UX CSE : Official Study Guide and Desk Reference," with 1704 pages of material for concepts from 2004 by Charles Keenan, September 10, 2004.

Very detailed, excellent presentation - 2004-01-30
Reviewer Rating:
This is a very thorough, well-presented text covering the "guts" of HP-UX. It is packed with excellent diagrams, kernel structures, syscall details, and pretty much everything "under the hood." All this is presented clearly: sufficient high-level overview to provide the "big picture", followed up with the very fine details. adb and q4 are used throughout, along with many illustrative examples and sample output.

This book is truly invaluable.

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