AN52G: Advanced Tools for AIX Performance Analysis
Table of Contents
- Short Summary
- Duration
- Content Description
- Objectives
- Agenda
- Audience
- Skill Level
- Labs?
- Keywords
- Prerequisites
- Enrollment
- Errata
- Follow-on Courses
Short Summary
The audience for this training includes AIX technical support personnel, performance benchmark personnel, and AIX system administrators.
Duration in Hours ⌚
32
Content Description
Develop the skills to use kernel traces, trace based utilities, and svmon to measure and analyze CPU, memory, and I/O performance issues on IBM Infrastructure running AIX. Reinforce each lecture during extensive hands-on lab exercises and get practical experience applicable to their performance management requirements.
Objectives
- Use the trace facility to collect data and create a trace report
- Use the kernel trace facilities to analyze CPU performance issues
- Describe causes and impacts of high context switching rates
- Identify what causes a thread to be blocked and later woken up
- Explain the relationship between the output of svmon -G, svmon -P, and svmon -S
- Calculate the amount of memory in use on the system
- Explain the relationship between svmon, vmstat, and ipcs output
- Categorize the memory in use on the system by segment type
- Identify which processes are using the most memory or paging space
- Describe the characteristics of asynchronous I/O, synchronous I/O, direct I/O, and concurrent I/O
- Identify if the expected type of I/O is being executed
- Tune asynchronous I/O
Agenda
Day 1
- Welcome
- Unit 1: AIX trace facilities
- Exercise 1: AIX trace facilities
- Unit 2: Advanced memory topics - I
- Exercise 1: AIX trace facilities (Part 3)
- Exercise 2: Advanced memory topics - I
Day 2
- Unit 3: Advanced memory topics - II
- Exercise 3: Advanced memory tropics - II
- Unit 4: Advanced CPU topics - I
- Exercise 4: Advanced CPU topics - I
- (Optional) Exercise 4: Advanced CPU topics - I (Part 2)
Day 3
- Unit 5: Advanced CPU topics - II
- Exercise 5: Advanced CPU topics - II
- Unit 6: Advanced I/O topics - I
- Exercise 6: Advanced I/O topics - I (Part 1)
- (Optional) Exercise 5: Advanced CPU topics - II
- (Parts 2 and 3)
Day 4
- Exercise 6: Advanced I/O topics - I (Part 2)
- Unit 7: Advanced I/O topics - II
- Exercise 7: Advanced I/O topics - II
- (Optional) Exercise 7: Advanced I/O topics - II (Part 3)
Audience
The audience for this training includes AIX technical support personnel, performance benchmark personnel, and AIX system administrators.
Skill Level
Advanced
Labs? 💻
No
Keywords
AN52G;AN52;AIX trace facilities
Prerequisites
You are expected to have extensive AIX skills. These skills can be obtained by attending the following courses:
- AIX Power Systems for AIX IV: Performance Management (AN510) or have the equivalent extensive AIX skills
Enrollment
https://www.ibm.com/training/course/AN52G
Errata
None specified.
Follow-on Courses
None