The practice of monitoring and tuning for performance

Speaker: Andrew Nelson

Abstract

Performance tuning is something almost every systems administrator has been asked to do at some point. A quick Internet search can yield hundreds of links on parameters to change and hardware to consider, but is your performance tuning actually making a difference? It's also very easy to end up with worse performance by overtuning.

In this presentation Andrew will discuss the methodologies for successful performance tuning and some pointers on how to leverage monitoring tools such as Zabbix to assist in the process.

Slides

Biography

Andrew Nelson is a Senior Linux Consultant with Red Hat in the United States with almost 20 years of experience with Linux and Open Source software. He has also been an active participant in the Zabbix community and maintains the Ruby Zabbix API library known as zbxapi. When Andrew is not assisting customers with their Red Hat infrastructure he spends his time woodworking or hacking away in his home computer lab.