Pro Oracle Database 11g RAC on Linux

Chapter 13. Linux Performance Monitoring

In the previous chapter, we looked at Oracle performance monitoring tools. However, performance problems often occur outside the Oracle environment at the processor and memory, network, or storage level. It is therefore important to understand the information provided, not only by the Oracle performance monitoring tools, but also by the standard operating system monitoring tools available on Linux. You can use the information provided by these tools to support the findings from Oracle tools to fully diagnose RAC performance.

There are a number of third-party performance monitoring tools that operate in the Linux environment. However, our focus here is on the operating system monitoring tools available by ...