There are another great tutorial about performance tuning from IBM - Informix Dynamic Server Performance Guide - all those ideas are discussed in that volume.
By the way, Informix Dynamic Server itself is an advanced and very stable product. From version 7.30 which was released almost a decade ago it offers advanced functionality with low resource consumption. (No bloated java stuff and other buzzwords).
It was a collection of multithreaded apps written in portable c++ which were purchased by IBM for $1bn.
I personally had run several big installations for some chain of retail stores in 2000, when all those magazines were never mention linux and informix as enterprice solution.
Today Informix was resurected by IBM which once decided to discontinue it in favour to support its DB/2 monster.
By the way, Informix Dynamic Server itself is an advanced and very stable product. From version 7.30 which was released almost a decade ago it offers advanced functionality with low resource consumption. (No bloated java stuff and other buzzwords).
It was a collection of multithreaded apps written in portable c++ which were purchased by IBM for $1bn.
I personally had run several big installations for some chain of retail stores in 2000, when all those magazines were never mention linux and informix as enterprice solution.
Today Informix was resurected by IBM which once decided to discontinue it in favour to support its DB/2 monster.