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Course Outline
Introduction
- Linux Foundation
- Linux Foundation Training
- Linux Foundation Certifications
- Linux Foundation Digital Badges
- Laboratory Exercises, Solutions and Resources
- Distribution Details
- Labs
Performance Optimization Principles
- Methodology
- Optimization Process
- Investigation Tools
- Labs
Benchmarking
- Performance Benchmarks
- Synthetic Benchmarks
- Application Benchmarks
- Labs
Tuning Interfaces
- Tuning Concepts
- Kernel Tunables
- Kernel Parameters
- Application Interfaces
- tuned
- Hardware Tunables
- Labs
Monitoring Interfaces
- /proc Filesystem
- Command-line Utilities
- Performance Data Collection
- Nagios
- Ganglia
- Kernel Monitoring
- Labs
Profiling Techniques and Tools
- Performance Monitoring
- Counters
- Performance Ratios
- Kernel vs Application Profiling
- oprofile
- Perf
- Available perf events
- Acquiring Performance Data with perf
- Monitoring Performance from Within the Application
- User Space Performance Monitoring with gprof
- Labs
Tracing Tools
- User Space Tracing
- strace
- Library Tracing
- Kernel Tracing
- ftrace
- SystemTap
- Tracing Applications with SystemTap
- Labs
CPU Subsystem
- CPU Concepts and Architecture
- CPU-Level Optimizations
- Specialized Instruction Sets
- CPU Topology
- BIOS Settings
- Labs
Power Management
- Power Management Strategies
- Device Power Management
- CPU Power Saving States
- Frequency Scaling
- Power Management Tools
- Labs
Process Scheduling
- Design
- Scheduling Policies
- Scheduling Tunable Settings
- CPU Affinity and Isolation
- Interrupt Affinity
- Control Groups
- Labs
Memory Subsystem
- Overview
- Page Lookup Optimization and Huge Pages
- Controlling Swapping from Applications
- Minimizing Faults
- Labs
NUMA Optimizations
- CPU Concepts and Architecture
- NUMA Memory Allocation
- NUMA Statistics
- Labs
I/O Subsystem
- Storage Stack Overview
- I/O Scheduler Concepts
- I/O Scheduler Algorithms
- Hardware Considerations
- Tuning Storage Devices
- Labs
Local Filesystems
- Major Filesystem Choices
- Ext3/4 Journaling Modes
- Filesystem Attributes
- Labs
Network Filesystems
- Network File System (NFS)
- NFSv4
- pNFS
- Labs
Storage and IO
- Software RAID Refresher
- RAID Levels
- RAID configuration
- Logical volumes
- Volumes and Volume Groups
- Creating Logical Volumes
- Raw Devices
- Asynchronous I/O
- Labs
Analyzing the I/O Subsystem
- iostat
- iotop
- blktrace
- blkparse
- btrace
- btt
- blkiomon
- Labs
Network Subsystem Optimization
- Network Stack Overview
- Optimizing for Latency and Throughput
- Network Interface Hardware Settings
- Offloading Techniques
- TCP Optimization
- Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools
- Labs
Virtualization
- Virtualization Overview
- Disk Considerations
- Network Considerations
- Labs
Requirements
This course is primarily intended for system administrators and technology architects who need to select and tune their environment to maximize speed and efficiency. Students should be experienced Linux users. Familiarity with local system administration concepts covered in LFS301 Linux System Administration is required.
Audience
This course is designed for IT professionals who are responsible for optimizing Linux performance.
Experience Level: Intermediate
28 Hours
Delivery Options
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- Delivered online, onsite/classroom or hybrid by experts sharing real world experience
Private Group Prices RRP from €9120 online delivery, based on a group of 2 delegates, €2880 per additional delegate (excludes any certification / exam costs). We recommend a maximum group size of 12 for most learning events.
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