Performance: Resources for learning

 

 

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Contents

1. Request metrics
2. Monitor performance with third-party tools
3. Tuning performance
4. Java performance resource

 

Request metrics

• Systems Management: Application Response Measurement (ARM)

  The Open Group ARM specifications.

 

Monitor 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 WebSphere Application Server.

 

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 Web sites

  Offers clear explanations and expert practical guidance on performance analysis for Java-based Web sites. It offers extensive appendices, including worksheets for capacity planning, checklists to help you prepare for different stages of performance testing, and a list of performance-test tool vendors.

• 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, JavaServer Pages files, JDBC connections, and enterprise applications with Enterprise JavaBeans components.

• WebSphere Application Server 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 Web site for a list of garbage collection 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.

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Related concepts

Performance Monitoring Infrastructure (PMI)

 

Related tasks

Monitor performance with Tivoli Performance Viewer (TPV)
Why use request metrics?
Tuning the application serving environment

 

Related information

Tivoli: Performance and Availability Solutions
IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Web Infrastructure

 

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