Solaris Performance Tuning

AUDIENCE: System Administrators, kernel developers, system tuners and application programmers who require to monitor their system performance in detail.
PREREQUISITES: Attendance on the Solaris Administration class or equivalent skills.
DURATION: 4 days. Hands on.
OBJECTIVES: Solaris Performance Tuning is the task of adjusting system resources to match the requirements of the applications. The Solaris Performance Tuning course teaches the delegate the process of observing system behaviour and isolating process operations which may be reducing overall system efficiency.

The Solaris Performance Tuning course starts by introducing performance management, using the various monitoring tools, evaluating and setting tuning parameters, monitoring processes and threads, CPU scheduling, system cache and memory, system buses, performing input & output tuning, tuning the UFS, and network tuning.
COURSE CONTENT:
· Using Solaris Monitoring Tools
introduction to the sar, vmstat, iostat, ,pstat netstat & nfsstat tools

· Viewing and setting Tuning Parameters
using sysdef, mdb & ndd utilities

· Monitoring Processes and threads
understanding processes & threads and their tunable parameters

· Managing CPU scheduling
Monitoring and controlling CPU performance & use of processor sets.

· Monitoring System Caches
understanding system cache operation & effects

· Performance Memory Tuning
memory consumption, virtual memory, swap, address space & policies

· Managing System Buses & performing I/O operations
understand the different system buses and their effects

· Tuning the UFS file system
understanding page & buffer cache, fsflush, inodes, logging

· Monitoring Network Performance
metstat, ndd, nfssstat

· System performance round-up

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