UNIX® Fault Management: A Guide for System Administration

Using System Performance Data

This section provides a brief introduction on how you can use performance monitoring tools to avoid, identify, and address system performance problems. An extensive tutorial on system performance is beyond the scope of this book.

A bottleneck in one system resource can render other system resources unusable. You need to ensure that all system components have sufficient capacity to operate at their optimal level. You can use performance data to avoid bottlenecks, by detecting trends to establish appropriate resource entitlements for each application, and to help eliminate problems when they occur.

This section does not discuss how to troubleshoot network performance issues, which is covered in Chapter 6.

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