Linux Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting
Master essential Linux performance analysis and optimization techniques to diagnose and resolve system bottlenecks.
- Linux command line basics
- Understanding of system processes
- Basic shell scripting
- Identify CPU, memory, and I/O bottlenecks
- Use performance monitoring tools effectively
- Optimize system resource allocation
- Debug slow applications and services
Setup Test Environment
Create a Docker container with performance monitoring tools and simulate various workloads.
CPU Performance Analysis
Learn to identify and diagnose CPU bottlenecks using top, htop, and mpstat.
Memory Analysis and Optimization
Analyze memory usage, identify memory leaks, and understand the Linux memory management system.
Disk I/O Performance Analysis
Identify I/O bottlenecks and optimize disk operations.
Network Performance Monitoring
Monitor network throughput, connections, and identify network-related bottlenecks.
Process-Level Debugging with strace
Use strace to debug slow processes and understand system call behavior.
System Optimization and Tuning
Apply performance optimizations based on findings.
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