PERFORMANCE AND TUNING OF THE UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM

Milan Tichý - Petr Zemánek

   This article defines basic measures for the UNIX operating system performance. We present methods for performance monitoring, interpretating the results of measurement, and performance tuning. Methods for increasing the performance of processes are discussed. An example of measuring and finding optimal values of the kernel tunable parameters is presented.

Keywords: operating system, process, file system, performance tuning

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