Performance Tuning for Linux Servers

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Above Idle tool (Performance Inspector) 2nd 3rd

accept_redirects parameter (kernel)

accept_source_route parameter (kernel)

access bits

ACEs (access control entries)

     file systems

ACLs (access control lists)

active balancing

address spaces

     kernel address space

     Moore's Law

     user address space

     virtual address spaces 2nd 3rd

         area structures 2nd 3rd

         highmen interface

         kernel address spaces

         kernel image section

         kernel module section

         paging 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

         swapping 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

         user address spaces 2nd 3rd

     virtual memory generic view

address translation process 2nd

addressing

     I/O devices

affinity

     IRQ 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

     processes

AFP file system

AFS/DFS

agebuffer parameter (bdflush)

AIM7 benchmarks

AIM9 benchmarks 2nd 3rd

aio-max-nr parameter (kernel)

aio-nr parameter (kernel)

algorithms

     code tuning 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th

allocation

     pages

allocation groups

     file systems

     XFS (Next Generation File System)

analysis methodologies (benchmarks) 2nd 3rd

     exit strategies 2nd

     measurements 2nd 3rd

     run rules

     target setting

     tuning 2nd 3rd

antic_expire parameter (AS I/O scheduler)

anticipatory I/O elevators

anticipatory I/O scheduler (AS) 2nd 3rd 4th

     decayed frequency tables

     lowest logical block information

     positioning time

     read anticipation process 2nd 3rd

     tuning 2nd

anycast_delay parameter (kernel)

Apache Web servers

     tuning 2nd

APIs

     (application programming interfaces)

     NAPI (network device driver API) 2nd 3rd 4th

     SendFile 2nd 3rd 4th

app_solicit parameter (kernel)

applets

     (Java)

application

     profiling 2nd 3rd

application benchmarks 2nd

     database benchmarks 2nd 3rd

     Java benchmarks

         SPECjvm 2nd

         Volanomark 2nd

     Oracle Applications Standard Application Benchmark

     PostMark 2nd

     SAP Standard Application Benchmark

application programming interfaces (APIs) [See APIs (application programming interface)]

application servers 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th

     availability

     clustering 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

    commercial workload

         J2EE model 2nd

         Trade3 benchmark 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th 28th 29th 30th 31st 32nd 33rd 34th 35th 36th 37th 38th 39th 40th 41st 42nd 43rd

         tuning 2nd

     concurrency

     connection pools 2nd

     data integrity

    database servers

         interactivity 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

    databases

         support

     distribution

     enterprise application

     failover

     fault tolerance

     file systems

     hardware 2nd

     heterogeneousness

     hyperthreading 2nd

     interactivity

    J2EE

         (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) 2nd 3rd

     Java 2nd

     JVM (Java Virtual Machine) 2nd 3rd 4th

     load balancing

     memory usage

     multiple-applications-in-one

     multiple-services-in-one

     native code

     networking

     pass-by-reference

     performance requirements 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th

     requests

     scalability

     security

     SMP scaling 2nd

     software performance stack 2nd 3rd 4th

     string manipulation

     synchronization

     thread pools 2nd

     threads

     topologies 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th

     transactions

     tuning 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

     vendor server portability

    vendors

         Linux support 2nd

     Web servers

applications

     designing 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

         clients 2nd

         code

         file I/O 2nd

         servers 2nd 3rd

         sockets 2nd 3rd

         synchronization 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

         threads 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

         timing routines 2nd 3rd

architecture models

     Web servers 2nd 3rd

architectures

     databases 2nd 3rd

     kernel 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th

    multiprocessing

         clusters 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

         NUMA (Non-Uniform Memory Architecture) 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th

         processor mixing

         SMP (Symmetrical Multiprocessing) 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th

area structures

     virtual memory 2nd 3rd

AS (anticipatory I/O scheduler) 2nd 3rd 4th

     decayed frequency tables

     lowest logical block information

     positioning time

     read anticipation process 2nd 3rd

     tuning 2nd

AS scheduler

     deadline behavior 2nd 3rd

     sequential read performance 2nd

asymmetrical multiprocessing systems

asynchronous I/O

     databases 2nd

     file systems 2nd 3rd

         functions 2nd

availability

     application servers