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Chapter 9. Tuning the existing
environment for better
performance
This chapter provides information about tuning an existing environment for better
performance. It also provides a guide for testing the application servers and
components of the total serving environment that should be examined and tuned
to increase the performance of the application.
This chapter contains the following sections:
9.1, “Testing the performance of an application” on page 224
9.2, “Tools of the trade” on page 225
9.3, “Performance monitoring guidelines” on page 238
9.4, “Performance tuning guidelines” on ...