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From: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>
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Subject: RE: system slows down to a crawl
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2001 10:59:00 +0100 
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Dear Andrew,

> 
> I just went out and bought that book. It is titled "System Performance
> Tuning," by Mike Loukides, published by O'Reilly, with a swordfish on
> the cover.
> 
> It's 11 years old, which means it was pre-FreeBSD (indeed, even
> pre-Linux!), but the main focus is 4.3BSD, which makes many aspects
> still relevant. I am finding it to be an interesting read. 
>
And after eleven years not only is the information in the book relevant and
useful (even on Windows), the command line examples still work (though not
on Windows).

This book is a prime example of teaching a man how to fish.

    Kees Jan

================================================
 You are only young once,
       but you can stay immature all your life.

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