Chapter 2. AIX Resource Management Overview

This chapter describes the components of AIX that manage the resources that have the most effect on system performance, and the ways in which these components can be tuned. Specific tuning recommendations appear in the chapters on tuning individual resources.

• "Performance Overview of the AIX CPU Scheduler"
• "Performance Overview of the Virtual Memory Manager (VMM)"
• "Performance Overview of AIX Management of Fixed-Disk Storage"

Specific tuning recommendations appear in:

• "Monitoring and Tuning CPU Use"
• "Monitoring and Tuning Memory Use"
• "Monitoring and Tuning Disk I/O"