Extreme Linux performance monitoring and tuning

Looking for Linux performance monitoring and tuning resources to conduct analyzing work? ufsdump.org has a wide array of resource for Unix systems. In these two part PDF provided by ufsdump.org, titled, “Extreme Linux Performance Monitoring and Tuning”, ufsdump.org highlights the various components from CPU, memory and I/O that should be monitored and tuned accordingly. Concepts such as context switches, run queue, CPU utilization, time slicing and priorities are discussed for CPU. For memory, the PDF steps through performance concerns in Virtual Memory, Virtual Size (VSZ) and Resident Set Size (RSS), Paging/ Swapping, Kernel Paging with pdflush and kswapd. Lastly in I/O, the articles walks through concepts on reading and writing data for memory pages, major and minor page faults, file buffer cache, types of memory pages and writing data pages back to disk. All these concepts are great tips for performance tester in determine the performance of the Linux servers. To download the PDF, click on link below: Read the rest of this entry »