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Profiling Tools: SystemTapparseprobe scriptRed Hat, Intel, IBM & Hitachi collaborationLinux answer to Solaris DtraceelaborateDynamic instrumentationprobeset libraryTool to take a deep look into a running system:translate to C, compile *●Assists in identifying causes of performance●problemsSimplifies building instrumentationload module, start probeprobe kernelobjectCurrent snapshots available from:http://sources.redhat.com/systemtap●Source for presentations/papersKernel space tracing today, user space tracingunder developmentextract output, unload* Solaris Dtrace is interpretiveprobe output Technology preview status until 5.1
Profiling Tools: SystemTapTechnology: Kprobes:●●●In current 2.6 kernels●Upstream 2.6.12, backported to RHEL4 kernelKernel instrumentation without recompile/rebootUses software int and trap handler for instrumentationDebug information:●●●Provides map between executable and source codeGenerated as part of RPM buildsAvailable at: ftp://ftp.redhat.comSafety: Instrumentation scripting language:●●●No dynamic memory allocation or assembly/C codeTypes and type conversions limitedRestrict access through pointersScript compiler checks:●Infinite loops and recursion – Invalid variable access
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RHEL Kernel Performance Optimizatio
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Section 1 System Overview Proces
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Processor typesUniProcessorSymmet
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AMD64 System Numa Memory LayoutS1S2
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Physical Memory Supported/TestedRHE
Page 13 and 14: IncomesExpendituresDonkey owned 0.7
Page 15 and 16: Perzone page lists Active List
Page 17 and 18: Per NUMANode ResourcesMemory zone
Page 19 and 20: Virtual Address Space Maps 32bit
Page 21 and 22: Linux 32bit Address Space(Hugemem
Page 23 and 24: Memory Pressure32 bitDMA Normal H
Page 25 and 26: User Memory PressureAnonymous/pagec
Page 27 and 28: PageCache/Anonymous memory split(Co
Page 29 and 30: 64bit Memory ReclamationRAMKernel
Page 31 and 32: Per Node/Zone Paging DynamicsUser A
Page 33 and 34: Buffered file system writeMemorycop
Page 35 and 36: Section 2 Analyzing System Perfo
Page 37 and 38: Red Hat Top ToolsCPU ToolsMemory To
Page 39 and 40: vmstat(paging vs swapping)vmstat 10
Page 41 and 42: iostat x of same IOzone EXT3 file
Page 43 and 44: free/numastat - memory allocation[r
Page 45 and 46: pstreeinit ─┬─/usr/bin/sealer
Page 47 and 48: The /proc filesystem /proc●meminf
Page 49 and 50: proc/slabinfoslabinfo version: 2
Page 51 and 52: 32bit /proc//maps[root@dhcp8336
Page 53 and 54: proc/vmstat(RHEL4/RHEL5)cat /proc/v
Page 55 and 56: Alt Sysrq M - RHEL3/NUMASysRq : Sho
Page 57 and 58: Alt Sysrq M - RHEL4 & 5/NUMAFree pa
Page 59 and 60: Alt Sysrq W and PSysRq : Show CPUsC
Page 61: oprofile - opcontrol and opreport c
Page 65 and 66: New Tuning Tools w/ RH MRGMRG Tunin
Page 67 and 68: Tuning how to set kernel paramet
Page 69 and 70: OOM kills - swap space exhaustion(R
Page 71 and 72: OOM kills - lowmem consumption(RHEL
Page 73 and 74: Eliminating OOMkillsRHEL3●/proc/s
Page 75 and 76: Performance Tuning - (RHEL3) /proc/
Page 77 and 78: RHEL3 /proc/sys/vm/pagecachepagecac
Page 79 and 80: Performance Tuning - (RHEL4 and RHE
Page 81 and 82: RHEL4&5 /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbyte
Page 83 and 84: RHEL4&5 /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratioAbs
Page 85 and 86: dirty_ratio and dirty_background_ra
Page 87 and 88: Pagecache TuningFilesystem/pagecach
Page 89 and 90: (Hint)flushing the slabcache[tmp]#
Page 91 and 92: x86●RHEL4 kernel selectionStandar
Page 93 and 94: Problem 16GB x86 running SMP ker
Page 95 and 96: Linux at 16cpus quadcore and b
Page 97 and 98: Asynchronous I/O CharacteristicsR4
Page 99 and 100: Disk IO tuning RHEL4/5RHEL4/5 -
Page 101 and 102: Optimizing File System PerformanceU
Page 103 and 104: McCalpin Streams Copy Bandwidth (1,
Page 105 and 106: RHEL4&5 NUMAstat and NUMActlEXAMPLE
Page 107 and 108: RHEL5.2 CPUspeed and performance:En
Page 109 and 110: Effects of CPUspeed with RHEL5.2 Vi
Page 111 and 112: EXT3, GFS, NFS Iozone w/ DirectIORH
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Using HugeTLBfs w/ DatabasesRHEL4+5
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Tuning Network Apps Messages/sec Di
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RT Peformance of Network Apps Messa
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General Performance Tuning Guidelin
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Linux Performance Tuning References
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