Performance Monitoring & Tuning Tools (IBM-AIX)

Madhusudhan Rajappa
Madhu.sudhan@in.ibm.com

General performance Monitoring tools

topas
jtopas
nmon
perfpmr (tool for collecting performance data when reporting a problem)

Performance Diagnostics Tool (PDT)

trace / strace

CPU Monitoring tools

lparstat
mpstat
procmon
topas
sar
iostat
vmstat
ps
trace
curt
splat
truss
gprof,pprof,prof,tprof
time,timex

CPU performance tuning tools

smtctl
bindintcpu
bindprocessor
schedo
renice
nice

Memory monitoring
ps
sar
svmon
topas
vmstat

Memory performance tuning

vmo

For monitoring storage:

iostat, filemon, fileplace, lslv, lspv, lsvg, lvmstat, sar -d

For storage performance tuning:

lsdev, rmdev, mkdev, lscfg, lsattr, chdev, ioo, lvmo, vmo

AIX Management Tool

smit / smitty

*Refer man pages for more information.