Performance Management Guide

Chapter 9. Monitoring and Tuning Communications I/O Use

This chapter discusses several different communications protocols and ways to monitor and tune them. It contains the following major sections:

• UDP and TCP/IP Performance Overview
• Analyzing Network Performance
• Tuning TCP and UDP Performance
• Tuning mbuf Pool Performance
• Tuning Asynchronous Connections for High-Speed Transfers
• Tuning Name Resolution
• Improving telnetd/rlogind Performance
• Tuning the SP Network