Chapter 17
Monitoring and Optimizing Performance
Topics covered in this chapter:
- Interpreting What's Going On: The top Utility
- Analyzing CPU Performance
- Analyzing Memory Usage
- Monitoring Storage Performance
- Understanding Network Performance
- Optimizing Performance
Running a server is one thing; running a server that works well is something else. On a server installed with the default settings, performance may not be up to where you need it to be. Finding a performance problem on a Linux server is not that easy. You need to know exactly what is going on, and you also need to know how to interpret performance-monitoring data. In this chapter, you will first learn how to monitor performance. After that, you'll learn how to optimize your server. ...
Get Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Administration: Real World Skills for Red Hat Administrators now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
