Chapter 5. System Monitoring and Initial Performance Diagnosis

This chapter describes tools and techniques for monitoring performance-related system activity and diagnosing performance problems. The major sections are:

• The Case for Continuous Performance Monitoring
• Performance Monitoring Using iostat, netstat, vmstat
• Performance Diagnostic Tool (PDT)
• Inference from the Kind of Performance Problem Reported
• Using PerfPMR for Performance Diagnosis
• Identifying the Performance-Limiting Resource
• Workload Management