MPE/iX performance and tuning

Audience

System administrators with at least 6 months of experience managing an HP E3000 Series 900.

Ways to save

Benefits to you

• Improve productivity by learning about the utilities and native MPE commands for resource and load management
• Learn to identify and deal effectively with bottlenecks
• Develop a strategy for process management
• Evaluate and improve application design
• Learn how recent changes to MPE affect performance

Course outline

• Introduction
• Building the foundation
• Understanding system performance
• Primary performance components
• System analysis and tuning
• The design of MPE/iX
• System hardware components
• Terminology review
• RISC- like features of PA-RISC
• HP precision register set
• High performing hardware caches
• Operating system components
• Policies for managing memory
• File system
• System components
• Introduction to performance bottlenecks
• Determining bottlenecks
• Common bottlenecks
• HP GlancePlus/iX
• Understanding the CPU
• Processes
• Connectivity
• The SHOWPROC command
• Dispatcher
• Sharing the CPU
• SHOWQ and SHOWWG
• Launching a process
• Controlling processes
• Tuning and queues
• ALTPROC
• Workload manager
• Managing workgroups
• GlancePlus CPE detail screen
• Understanding memory manager
• Introduction to memory management
• Private Data Area (PDA)
• How objects are tracked
• Virtual addressing
• The Page Directory (PDIR)
• The Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB)
• I/O interface
• Memory requirements
• Memory applications
• POSIX
• File security review - ACDs
• Accessing a file with an ACD
• POSIX
• Hierarchical file system
• The POSIX shell
• Managing POSIX users
• File management and system backup
• Security
• The File System and I/O
• How files are managed
• File system, access, layout
• Disk layout
• File posting
• Data integrity
• File recovery
• Transaction management (XM)
• Controlling disk activity
• Hardware considerations
• I/O peripherals and architectures
• HP PA-RISC
• HP E3000 Series 9X8
• ISL utilities
• STM and the HP E3000
• High availability
• Options for data availability
• Separate volume sets for IMAGE D/B and log files
• HP AutoRestart/iX
• TurboStore/iX options
• Mirrored disk/iX
• Disk Arrays
• SharePlex/iX - NetBase
• Application considerations
• Application optimization
• Compatibility mode
• Object code translator
• Native mode
• Application performance
• Switch stubs
• Switch rates per second
• Data locality
• Locks and latches bottleneck
• GlancePlus - impeded processes
• Glanceplus - CPU detail screen
• Performance analysis
• Factors affecting performance
• Response time
• Throughput
• Performance curves
• Performance criteria
• Monitoring system performance
• MPE/iX commands
• System performance management
• Service-level agreements
• Performance monitoring and tuning
• CPU bottlenecks
• Memory bottlenecks and management
• Memory performance concerns and management
• Disk performance concerns and management
• Other I/O bottlenecks
• Use of GlancePlus
• Additional tools
• HP performance tools
• HP SPT/iX software performance tuner
• HP PerfView
• Ploticus/iX
• Lund Performance Gallery Gold
• Lund SOS/3000
• AMUSAGE
• HP threshold manager