[ale] Red Hat User Group Atlanta meeup: Tomorrow

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Tue Oct 21 12:16:30 EDT 2014


Okay, thank you.

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Scott McBrien <smcbrien at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought this was in the overview, but maybe I'm wrong, I wrote it a long
> time ago.
>
> Start with a talk about /proc and /proc/sys and sysctl, then /sys,
> finishing with tuned.
>
> Not a ton of use case baked into the preso, but tunables like swappiness
> or huge pages gear themselves to the obligatory database and JVM mention,
> respectively.
>
> -Scott
>
>
> On Oct 21, 2014, at 9:51 AM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I understand you have to focus on 7 with a subfocus on 6. Sadly, the USG's
> IT support doesn't move that fast so I'm stuck on 5 where I require their
> support. And I'm only just now moving up to 6 one the systems I don't
> (haven't had time to setup a test 7 environment). So I'm just trying to
> gauge if the drive up there is going to benefit me much.
>
> What sort of performance scenarios are you targeting in your overview?
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Scott McBrien <smcbrien at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Most of it applies to both 5 and 6.  tuned only 6 and 7, though it might
>> have been added for 5, I've not worked on one of those in a few years, but
>> it's an easy bolt-on with the tuned package, so they might have ported it
>> to 5 as well.  I wrote the preso for 7, and tuned for 7 has a bunch of
>> systemd things now, but the basic mechanics of switching profiles is
>> largely unchanged from earlier versions.  The big difference with 7 is what
>> happens when the profile is activated.
>>
>> I mean, the preso is an hour +/-, so how crazy can I really get?  Realize
>> that the Perf Tuning class RH offers is 4 days...
>>
>> -Scott
>>
>>
>> On Oct 20, 2014, at 9:46 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> How much would really apply to 6, and maybe 5?
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 2:47 PM, scott mcbrien <smcbrien at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Tomorrow night is a meeting of the Red Hat User Group - Atlanta.  Topic
>>> is "Introduction to Performance Tuning" if anyone is interested, they can
>>> apply to the meetup:
>>>
>>> http://www.meetup.com/Atlanta-Red-Hat-User-Group/
>>>
>>> We generally keep membership to RH customers, but Red Hat adjacent
>>> technical folks are good too.
>>>
>>> -Scott
>>>
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> James Sumners
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> corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a
> condition to which they are quickly addicted."
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> Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
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-- 
James Sumners
http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological
personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the
corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a
condition to which they are quickly addicted."

Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
CH:D 59
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