Advanced Tools for AIX Performance Analysis

The audience for this advanced training include AIX technical support personnel, performance benchmark personnel, and AIX system administrators.

• Use the trace facility to collect data and create a trace report
• Use the kernel trace facilities to analyze CPU performance issues
• Describe causes and impacts of high context switching rates
• Identify what causes a thread to block and what causes a later wake up
• Explain the relationship between the output of svmon -G, svmon -P, and svmon -S
• Calculate the amount of memory in use on the system
• Explain the relationship between svmon, vmstat, and ipcs output
• Categorize the memory in use on the system by segment type
• Identify which processes are using the most memory
• Identify which segments are using the most paging space
• Describe the characteristics of asynchronous I/O, synchronous I/O, direct I/O and concurrent I/O
• Identify if the expected type of I/O is being executed
• Tune asynchronous I/O

You are expected to have extensive AIX skills. These skills can be obtained by attending the following courses:

• Power Systems for AIX IV: Performance Management (AN510)
• Power Systems for AIX IV: Performance Management (ILO) (AX510)

Day 1

• Welcome
• Unit 1 - Trace Facilities
• Exercise 1 - Trace Facilities
• Unit 2 - Advanced Memory Topics - I
• Exercise 2 - Advanced Memory Topics - I
  

Day 2

• Unit 3 - Advanced Memory Topics - II
• Exercise 3 - Advanced Memory Topics - II
• Unit 4 - Advanced CPU Topics - I
• Exercise 4 - Advanced CPU Topics - I
• (optional) Exercise 4 - Advanced CPU Topics - I (Part 2)
  

Day 3

• Unit 5 - Advanced CPU Topics - II
• Exercise 5 - Advanced CPU Topics - II
• Unit 6 - Advanced I/O Topics - I
• Exercise 6 - Advanced I/O Topics - I - Part 1
• (optional) Exercise 5 - Advanced CPU Topics - II (Parts 2 & 3)
  

Day 4

• Exercise 6 - Advanced I/O Topics - I - Part 2
• Unit 7 - Advanced I/O Topics - II
• Exercise 7 - Advanced I/O Topics - II
• (optional) Exercise 7 - Advanced I/O Topics - II - (Part 3)

Previous courses

Power Systems for AIX IV: Performance Management [AN51G]