AIX Training Overview
This course is designed to teach performance concepts relating to Unix
systems (IBM AIX pSeries and RS/6000 hardware platforms), and to use
these concepts to develop a tuning methodology to monitor, interpret, and adjust mechanisms that affect performance. The course will Develop the skills to measure, analyze, and tune AIX subsystems for optimum performance. The course will also show how to use standard AIX performance tools (sar, iostat, vmstat, and trace), along with advanced AIX performance tools (tprof, svmon,filemon, monitor, and nmon).
AIX Training Prerequisites
It is assumed that the student has experience with interactive Unix
systems with user-level commands, basic shell or PERL scripting
techniques, and essential systems administrator functions.
AIX Training Course duration
This course requires four (4) days, approximately 70 % lecture,
and 30 % lab time.
AIX Training Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, a system performance analyst will be
able to : understand fundamental performance concepts for memory
management, CPU management, and I/O management in AIX systems;
use supplied monitoring tools to interpret performance statistics.
AIX Training Course outline
Performance Basics
- Factors affecting system performance
- Performance metrics
- Virtual system caching
- Effects of Computer Architecture
Memory Management
- Memory usage by the kernel
- Process creation
- Buffer Cache (and allocation control)
- Shared Memory / Page Caching
- Paging and Swapping
- Monitoring Tools
CPU Management
- Software priorities concepts
- Impact of the nice parameters
- Priority boosting
- Differences in hardware implementations
- Monitoring tools
I/O Management
- Breakdown of disk I/O
- Measuring Disk and terminal I/O
- File system structure concepts
- File system caching
- Name Lookup Caching
- Tuning the Usage of Non-Computational Memory
- Monitoring tools
Network Management
- TCP/IP Layers
- Socket controls
- Controlling network services
- Setting network buffer values
- Monitoring tools
NFS Performance
- RPC Performance Considerations
- Impact of NFS Blocking and Caching Sizes
- Optimizing NFS Servers and Clients
- Monitoring tools
X-window basics and implementation
- Client-server communications
- Optimizing a system with X
- Reducing xterm memory usage
- Monitoring tools
Modification of Performance Parameters
- using smit to change basic parameters
- dynamic changes with vmtune, schedtune,
schedo, iotune
Summaries
- Memory management
- CPU management
- I/O management
- Network management
- User program management
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