- General Information
- Manufacturer
- Red Hat, Inc
- Manufacturer Website Address
- http://www.redhat.com
- Brand Name
- Red Hat
- Product Type
- Technology Training
RH442 is designed to teach the methodology of performance tuning and capacity planning for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This four day, hands-on lab courses will cover: a discussion of system architecture with an emphasis on understanding the implications of system architecture on system performance, methods for testing the effects of performance adjustments (benchmarking), open source benchmarking utilities, methods for analyzing system performance and networking performance, tuning configurations for specific application loads.
- Product Information
- Training Type
- Course
- Training Name
- Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning
- Maximum Course Duration
- 4 Day
- Course Curriculum
Basics: Principles and Terminology:
- What is performance tuning?
- Steps in the tuning process
- Quantifying performance
Tools for Obtaining Information:
- The sysfs and proc filesystems and the sysctl utility
- System process queues
- The system activity reporter
- Passing parameters to kernel modules
- Generating reports using standard utilities
- Benchmarking
- Monitoring systems with SNMP and MRTG
Monitoring the Kernel:
- Kernel profiling and OProfile
- Monitoring the kernel with SystemTap
Hardware Performance Consideration:
- Memory: levels, types
- Cache
- Disk and I/O
The CPU: Processes and Scheduling:
- Controlling processor speed
- How the Linux kernel schedules processes
- Process priority
- Obtaining processor performance information
Memory:
- How Processes and the kernel utilize memory
- System tunables that affect memory performance
- How page and buffer caches work
- Monitoring and controlling memory usage
- The virtual memory subsystem
The I/O Subsystem and Filesystems:
- Tuning the disk I/O subsystem
- I/O scheduling
- The virtual file system
- File system tunable parameters
- Layout of the ext2 and ext3 filesystems
- Journaling
Network Performance:
- Factors affecting performance
- Viewing device information
- Ethernet channel bonding
- Network sockets
- Layers of the OSI model
- TCP tuning
Application Tuning:
- Causes of performance problems
- Application tuning
- Viewing application behaviors using standard tools
- NFS
- Apache
- Samba
- Target Audience
- Experienced Linux system administrators responsible for maximizing resource utilization through performance tuning.
- Current RHCEs who are attempting to earn a Certificate of Expertise, RHCSS certification or RHCA certification.
- Training Requirements
- RHCE certification or equivalent experience
- Course participants without an RHCE certification are encouraged to check their experience levels by taking a free pre-assessment test