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UNIX - SYSTEM PERFORMANCE

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The purpose of this tutorial is to introduce the performance analyst to some of the free tools available to monitor and
manage performance on UNIX systems, and to provide a guideline on how to diagnose and fix performance problems in
Unix environment.
UNIX has following major resource types that need to be monitored and tuned:
CPU
Memory
Disk space
Communications lines
I/O Time
Network Time
Applications programs

Peformance Components:
There are following major five component where total system time goes:

Component

Description

User state CPU

The actual amount of time the CPU spends running the users program in
the user state. It includes time spent executing library calls, but does not
include time spent in the kernel on its behalf.

System state CPU

This is the amount of time the CPU spends in the system state on behalf of
this program. All I/O routines require kernel services. The programmer
can affect this value by the use of blocking for I/O transfers.

I/O Time and Network Time

These are the amount of time spent moving data and servicing I/O requests

Virtual Memory Performance

This includes context switching and swapping.

Application Program

Time spent running other programs - when the system is not servicing this
application because another application currently has the CPU.

Peformance Tools:
Unix provides following important tools to measure and fine tune Unix system performance:

Command

Description

nice/renice

Run a program with modified scheduling priority

netstat

Print network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade


connections, and multicast memberships

time

Time a simple command or give resource usage

uptime

System Load Average

ps

Report a snapshot of the current processes.

vmstat

Report virtual memory statistics

gprof

Display call graph profile data

prof

Process Profiling

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Display system tasks

You can use Manpage Help to check complete syntax for each command mentioned here.

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