Part 3: Case studies and miscellaneous tools

Part 3 provides two case studies for performance monitoring and tuning a NIM server and gives a practical example of using the new tools and features in an IBM p5 with Micro-Partitioning and SMT.

We describe how to use the Workload Manager and Partition Load Manager for performance monitoring and system analysis and introduce the Resource Monitoring and Control (part of RSCT) functionality for monitoring system performance.

In Chapter 10, “Performance monitoring APIs” on page 583 we also provide information about the Perfstat API and usage examples for programming applications to use this interface. ...

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