An intelligent tool for UNIX performance tuning
Raul Velez, D. Zhang, J.H. Kho · 2002
The authors present the design and implementation of a knowledge-based tool for performance tuning of the UNIX operating system. The tool, called BMS, provides intelligent support and maintenance for identifying bottlenecks in UNIX performance and recommending solutions to the problems. Currently, it handles problems in UNIX resource managers, such as memory utilization, disk utilization, CPU scheduling and I/O devices. BMS has been implemented in the EXSYS environment and tested on UNIX V.3. Preliminary results have indicated that such a knowledge-based tool for operating system performance tuning is viable; increases the productivity of system maintenance personnel and reduces the cost of training; and provides users of an operating system with prompt solutions to their system performance problems.