Performance Tuning for Linux Servers

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badblocks utility (Ext2/Ext3 file system)

banks

     physical memory

base_reachable_time parameter (kernel)

Baseline column (NetBench)

bdflush kernel daemon

     parameters 2nd

bdflush parameter (kernel)

BEA WebLogic

     application servers

benchmarks 2nd

     analysis 2nd 3rd

     application benchmarks 2nd

         database benchmarks 2nd 3rd

         Java benchmarks 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

         Oracle Applications Standard Benchmark

         PostMark benchmarks 2nd

         SAP Standard Application Benchmark

     consistency

     enterprise benchmarks

     exit strategies 2nd

     FFSB (flexible file system benchmark)

     file servers

     I/O schedulers 2nd 3rd 4th

         16-way RAID-0 setup 2nd

         8-way NUMA RAID setup 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

         AS scheduler 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

         single-CPU single-disk setup 2nd 3rd

     Linux kernel performance benchmarks 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th

     mail servers

     measurements 2nd 3rd

     metadata

     microbenchmarks 2nd

         disk benchmarks 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th

         network benchmarks 2nd 3rd 4th

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

     network performance 2nd 3rd 4th

         NetBench 2nd 3rd 4th

         Netperf3 benchmark 2nd 3rd

         SPECWeb99 benchmark 2nd 3rd 4th

         VolcanoMark benchmark 2nd 3rd

     operating system benchmarks

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

         kernel performance benchmarks 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th

         methodology case study

         numerical analysis

         simulators

         tracing

         workload characterization

     repeatability

     run rules

     sequential read benchmarks

     sequential write benchmarks

    targets

         setting

     tuning 2nd 3rd

     Web server benchmarks

         ECPerf 2nd

         SPECjAppServer 2nd

         SPECweb 2nd 3rd

         SPECweb SSL 2nd 3rd

         TCP-W 2nd 3rd

     Web servers

     workloads 2nd

Berkeley sockets 2nd 3rd

BI (business intelligence)

binding

     IRQ 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

     processes

BIO (block I/O) layer

     I/O schedulers 2nd 3rd 4th

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

         CFQ (Completely Fair Queuing) I/O scheduler

         deadline I/O scheduler 2nd 3rd

         noop I/O scheduler

         performance issues

         tuning 2nd

     struct page pointers

blades

block allocation

     Ext2 file system

     file systems

block groups

     Ext2 file system

block size I/O

     databases

blocks

     increasing

     super blocks

Bonnie/Bonnie++ benchmarks 2nd 3rd

bonuses

    interactive tasks

         giving to

bootp_relay parameter (kernel)

bottlenecks

     system tracing 2nd

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

         PI (Performance Inspector) 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 17th

         requirements

         strace command 2nd 3rd 4th

         top utility 2nd 3rd

bottom half handlers

bounce buffers

     databases

browsers

BSD

     (Berkeley Software Design) 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

    initialization table

         Slackware 2nd

     system initialization 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th

         initialization table 2nd

    System V

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

buffers

    read/write buffers

         TCP

burst transfer rates

     data movement

business intelligence (BI)

byte range requests