Performance tuning practice labs

Skills you’ll practise

Grouped from the public exam objectives published by Red Hat.

• Analyze behavior with vmstat, iostat, sar, top and PCP
• Profile the hardware configuration
• Tune the kernel with sysctl, /proc, /sys and module parameters
• Trace performance with SystemTap and eBPF tools
• Tune processes with priorities, tuned, cgroups and systemd limits
• Memory tuning: huge pages, overcommit, swap, NUMA
• Disk and file system tuning: I/O schedulers, writeback
• Network tuning: socket and buffer sizing

1. 01

   Analyze behavior with vmstat, iostat, sar, top and PCP

   Real machine · guided tasks · automatic checks

   Coming soon
2. 02

   Profile the hardware configuration

   Real machine · guided tasks · automatic checks

   Coming soon
3. 03

   Tune the kernel with sysctl, /proc, /sys and module parameters

   Real machine · guided tasks · automatic checks

   Coming soon
4. 04

   Trace performance with SystemTap and eBPF tools

   Real machine · guided tasks · automatic checks

   Coming soon
5. 05

   Tune processes with priorities, tuned, cgroups and systemd limits

   Real machine · guided tasks · automatic checks

   Coming soon
6. 06

   Memory tuning: huge pages, overcommit, swap, NUMA

   Real machine · guided tasks · automatic checks

   Coming soon
7. 07

   Disk and file system tuning: I/O schedulers, writeback

   Real machine · guided tasks · automatic checks

   Coming soon
8. 08

   Network tuning: socket and buffer sizing

   Real machine · guided tasks · automatic checks

   Coming soon

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