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Overview
This course discusses system architecture with an emphasis on:
- Understanding the implications of system performance
- Methods for testing the effects of performance adjustments
- Open-source benchmarking utilities
- Methods for analyzing system and networking performance
- Tuning configurations for specific application loads
Target Audience
Senior Linux system administrators who are responsible for maximizing resource utilization through performance tuning.
Prerequisites
Course Objectives
Full Course Outline
Introduction to performance tuning
- Understand the basic principles of performance tuning and analysis.
Collecting, graphing, and interpreting data
- Gain proficiency using basic analysis tools and evaluating data.
General tuning
- Learn basic tuning theory and mechanisms used to tune the system.
Limiting resource usage
Hardware profiling
- Understand and analyze hardware.
Software profiling
- Analyze CPU and memory performance of applications.
Small file tuning
- Tune a server for a workload involving frequent reads and writes of small files.
Large memory workload tuning
- Understand memory management and tuning.
Tuning for a CPU-intensive workload
- Understand tuning for CPU-bound applications.
File server tuning
- Understand storage and network tuning in the context of a file server application.
Database server tuning
- Tune memory and network performance using a database application as an example.
Power usage tuning
- Tune systems with power consumption in mind.
Virtualization tuning
- Tune 'host' and 'guest' for efficient virtualization.