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Performance: Resources for learning
Use the following links to find relevant supplemental information about performance. The information resides on IBM and non-IBM Internet sites, whose sponsors control the technical accuracy of the information.
These links are provided for convenience. Often, the information is not specific to the IBM WebSphere Application Server product, but is useful for understanding the product. When possible, links are provided to technical papers and Redbooks that supplement the broad coverage of the release documentation with in-depth examinations of particular product areas. The following sections are covered in this reference:
View the following links for additional information:
- Request metrics
- Monitoring performance with third-party tools
- Tune performance
- Java™ performance resource
Request metrics
- Systems Management: Application Response Measurement (ARM)
The Open Group ARM specifications.
Monitoring performance with third-party tools
- IBM Search
Solutions.
Use IBM's Global Solution Directory to find a list of IBM's business partners that offer performance monitoring tools compliant with WAS.
Tune performance
- Hints on Running a high-performance
web server
Read hints about running Apache on a heavily loaded web server. The suggestions include how to tune your kernel for the heavier TCP/IP load, and hardware and software conflicts.
- Performance Analysis for Java websites
Offers clear explanations and expert practical guidance on performance analysis for Java-based websites. It offers extensive appendices, including worksheets for capacity planning, checklists to help prepare for different stages of performance testing, and a list of performance-test tool vendors.
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AIX documentation
View the entire AIX software documentation library for releases 4.3, 5.1, and 5.2.
- WAS Development Best Practices for Performance and Scalability
Describes development best practices for web applications with servlets, JSP files, JDBC connections, and enterprise applications with Enterprise JavaBeans components.
- WAS V6 Scalability and Performance Handbook
- WebSphere tuning for the impatient: How to get 80% of the performance improvement with 20% of the effort
Java™ performance resource
- IBM developerWorks
Search the IBM developerWorks website for a list of garbage page documentation, including "Understanding the IBM Java Garbage Collector", a three-part series. To locate the documentation, search on "sensible garbage collection" in the developerWorks search application.
Review "Understanding the IBM Java Garbage Collector" for a description of the IBM verbose:gc output and more information about the IBM garbage collector.
Related concepts:
PMI
Related
Monitoring performance with Tivoli Performance Viewer
Why use request metrics?
Tune the application serving environment
Related information:
Tivoli: Performance and Availability Solutions
IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Web Infrastructure