Unix Courses:
Advanced Unix Performance & Tuning Training Course

The objective of this course is to provide UNIX System Administrators with an introduction to system performance and tuning . At the end of the course delegates will have the skills required to monitor the performance of a Unix system, interpret performance data and tune the system for optimum performance.

This course is a generic UNIX course and will cover the tools and techniques available for the most popular variants of UNIX such as Solaris, AIX,HP-UX SCO and Linux.

Delegates should be competent in the skills covered by the PTR Unix Administration course.

Topics covered on the 2 day Advanced Unix Performance & Tuning course

Introduction To System Performance

• System Performance issues
• System Resources.

Monitoring System Activity

• The ps Command
• The cron Command
• System Accounting
• The sar Command
• The vmstat Command

Managing The Workload

• Reducing Workload
• Scheduling Priority
• Using at and cron for off-peak processing

CPU Performance

• Kernel Tables
• Kernel Parameters
• Monitoring CPU Usage
• Tuning Guidelines

Memory Performance

• Paging & Swapping
• Conserving Memory
• Monitoring Memory Usage
• Tuning Guidelines

Disk Performance

• Partitions & Filesystems
• Planning & Creating Filesystems
• Filesystem Buffers
• Monitoring Disk Usage
• Tuning Guidelines

Kernel Configuration

• System V Kernels
• BSD Kernels
• Custom Kernels

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