Study to pass the RHCE exam—the benchmark certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This course covers Linux kernel tuning for performance optimization, and remote logging.
Linux System Engineer: Kernel Tuning and Remote Logging
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Performance with Linux kernel tuning
- What you should know
- OS installation
- Lab setup
- Install guest additions
- Introduction to performance testing
- Monitor processes using ps
- Monitor processes in real time
- Monitor processes using GNOME System Monitor
- Use Performance Co-pilot (PCP) to gather statistics
- Use turbostat to gather CPU statistics
- Use SS to gather network statistics
- Other CLI performance monitoring tools
- Introduction to tuned
- Install additional tuned profiles
- Create custom tuned profiles
- Use PowerTOP suggestions in tuned
- Boot-time kernel parameters
- Understand Linux kernel versions
- Tune live kernel parameters manually using sysctl
- Use Tuna to tune the kernel
- Linux kernel directory structure
- Manage kernel modules
- Displaying information about kernel modules
- Installing kernel modules from disk
- Understand Enterprise 7 logging
- rsyslog filters
- rsyslog actions
- Log to a remote rsyslog server
- Next steps
Taught by
Grant McWilliams
