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    Published on August 1, 2026

    Advanced Tools for AIX Performance Analysis

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    Develop the skills to use kernel traces, trace based utilities, and svmon to measure and analyze CPU, memory, and I/O performance issues on IBM systems running AIX. Reinforce each lecture during extensive hands-on lab exercises and get practical experience applicable to their performance management requirements.

    Advanced Tools for AIX Performance Analysis
    Table of contents
    1. Short Summary
    2. Modality
    3. Cost
    4. Publish date
    5. Retire date
    6. Duration
    7. Agenda
    8. Objectives
    9. Brand/Department
    10. Product
    11. Skill Level
    12. Key Topics
    13. Audience
    14. Labs
    15. Follow-on Courses
    Short Summary

    The audience for this training includes AIX technical support personnel, performance benchmark personnel, and AIX system administrators.

    Modality

    Classroom or Instructor-led online

    Cost

    paid

    Amount

    300

    Publish Date

    August 1, 2026

    Retire Date

    December 30, 2026

    Duration

    32 hours

    Agenda

    Day 1

    • Welcome
    • Unit 1: AIX trace facilities
    • Exercise 1: AIX trace facilities
    • Unit 2: Advanced memory topics - I
    • Exercise 1: AIX trace facilities (Part 3)
    • Exercise 2: Advanced memory topics - I

    Day 2

    • Unit 3: Advanced memory topics - II
    • Exercise 3: Advanced memory tropics - II
    • Unit 4: Advanced CPU topics - I
    • Exercise 4: Advanced CPU topics - I
    • (Optional) Exercise 4: Advanced CPU topics - I (Part 2)

    Day 3

    • Unit 5: Advanced CPU topics - II
    • Exercise 5: Advanced CPU topics - II
    • Unit 6: Advanced I/O topics - I
    • Exercise 6: Advanced I/O topics - I (Part 1)
    • (Optional) Exercise 5: Advanced CPU topics - II
    • (Parts 2 and 3)

    Day 4

    • Exercise 6: Advanced I/O topics - I (Part 2)
    • Unit 7: Advanced I/O topics - II
    • Exercise 7: Advanced I/O topics - II
    • (Optional) Exercise 7: Advanced I/O topics - II (Part 3)
    Objectives
    • Use the trace facility to collect data and create a trace report
    • Use the kernel trace facilities to analyze CPU performance issues
    • Describe causes and impacts of high context switching rates
    • Identify what causes a thread to be blocked and later woken up
    • Explain the relationship between the output of svmon -G, svmon -P, and svmon -S
    • Calculate the amount of memory in use on the system
    • Explain the relationship between svmon, vmstat, and ipcs output
    • Categorize the memory in use on the system by segment type
    • Identify which processes are using the most memory or paging space
    • Describe the characteristics of asynchronous I/O, synchronous I/O, direct I/O, and concurrent I/O
    • Identify if the expected type of I/O is being executed
    • Tune asynchronous I/O
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    Brand/Department

    Power Systems - AIX

    Product

    IBM AIX 7 Enterprise Edition

    Skill Level

    Instructor: advanced, Student: advanced

    Key Topics

    AN52G, AN52, AIX trace facilities

    Audience
    • The audience for this training includes AIX technical support personnel
    • performance benchmark personnel
    • and AIX system administrators.
    Labs

    Yes

    Follow-on Courses

    Not provided.