Application Tuning

Application Tuning

You can often increase system performance by tuning your applications to more closely follow your system's resource limits. If you are concerned about a decrease in your system's performance, you should first check your application software to see if it is making the best use of the operating system. If you are using an application of your own manufacture, there are steps you can take to improve performance. Even if a commercially purchased application is degrading system performance, you can identify the problem and use that information to make any decisions about system tuning or new hardware, or even simply when and how to use the application. The following sections explain how to examine and tune applications. The rest of this chapter assumes that your applications have been tuned as much as possible according to these suggestions.

Checking Application Performance
Tuning an Application
Looking At/Reordering an Application
What About Commercial Applications?