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"
• "The Performance Diagnostic Tool"
• "Inference from the Kind of Performance Problem Reported"
• "Using PerfPMR for Performance Diagnosis"
• "Identifying the Performance-Limiting Resource"
• "Workload Management"