Tuning & Benchmarking

RH442 - Performance Tuning & Benchmarking


Descrição:

RH442 Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning is an advanced 4-day hands-on lab course covering system architecture, performance characteristics, monitoring, benchmarking, and network performance tuning.

Tópicos:
  • Basics: Principles and Terminology
    • What is performance tuning?
    • Steps in the tuning process
    • Quantifying performance

  • Tools for Obtaining Information
    • The sysfs and proc filesystems and the sysctl utility
    • System process queues
    • The system activity reporter
    • Passing parameters to kernel modules
    • Generating reports using standard utilties
    • Benchmarking
    • Monitoring systems with SNMP and MRTG

  • Monitoring the Kernel
    • Kernel profiling and OProfile
    • Monitoring the kernel with SystemTap

  • Hardware Performance Considerations
    • Memory: levels, types
    • Cache
    • Disk and I/O

  • The CPU: Processes and Scheduling
    • Controlling processor speed
    • How the Linux kernel schedules processes
    • Process priority
    • Obtaining processor performance information

  • Memory
    • How Processes and the kernel utilize memory
    • System tunables that affect memory performance
    • How page and buffer caches work
    • Monitoring and controlling memory usage
    • The virtual memory subsystem

  • The I/O Subsystem and Filesystems
    • Tuning the disk I/O subsystem
    • I/O scheduling
    • The virtual file system
    • File system tunable parameters
    • Layout of the ext2 and ext3 filesystems
    • Journaling

  • Network Performance
    • Factors affecting performance
    • Viewing device information
    • Ethernet channel bonding
    • Network sockets
    • Layers of the OSI model
    • TCP tuning

  • Application Tuning
    • Causes of performance problems
    • Application tuning
    • Viewing application behaviors using standard tools
    • NFS
    • Apache
    • Samba


Duração: 32 horas

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