Chapter 12. System performance

For any system, continued customer satisfaction and purchasing decisions depend strongly on performance. Part of the job of the system administrator is performance analysis: To understand the system behavior and identify the usage of resources.

This section provides information on concepts, tools, and techniques for assessing and tuning the performance of AIX on RS/6000 systems. Topics covered include assessment of CPU use, memory use, disk I/O, and communications I/O. The concepts, tools, and techniques discussed in this section are not intended to be a total list, and, as such, you are encouraged to seek additional information from the appropriate AIX product documentation.

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