Resource Management Overview

This chapter describes the components of the operating system that manage the resources that have the most effect on system performance, and the ways in which these components can be tuned. This chapter contains the following major sections:

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

Specific tuning recommendations appear in the following:

• Chapter 6. Monitoring and Tuning CPU Use.
• Chapter 7. Monitoring and Tuning Memory Use.
• Chapter 8. Monitoring and Tuning Disk I/O Use.
• Chapter 9. Monitoring and Tuning Communications I/O Use.
• Chapter 10. Monitoring and Tuning NFS Use.