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
- Allocate resources for best performance by limiting resource
usage.
Hardware profiling
- Understand and analyze hardware.
Software profiling
- Analyze CPU and memory performance of applications.
Using SystemTap
- Use systemtap for profiling software.
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.
Red Hat Performance Tuning Comprehensive Review
- Do a comprehensive overview of the course.
