OpenVMS System Performance Management (TR-1SL203-VMS) – Outline

Detailed Course Outline

  • General Performance Topics
  • Layout of Virtual Address Space
  • Image Activation and Paging
  • Interpreting Paging Metrics
  • Working Sets and Automatic Working Set Adjustment
  • Locality and Paging Performance
  • Shared Image Cost and Benefits
  • The Modified Page List and Modified Page Writing
  • The Swapper and Memory Reclamation
  • General I/O Flow
  • Analyzing the Effects of Fragmentation
  • Controller Optimizations
  • Files-11 ODS-2, ODS-5 Concepts
  • Contiguity and the File System
  • File System Caches
  • RMS Structures and Design Considerations
  • RMS Utilities
  • RMS I/O Buffering Considerations
  • Monitor RMS
  • Understanding CPU Performance
  • Understanding Time Spent in Modes
  • OpenVMS Scheduling and Priorities
  • Locking Concepts
  • Distributed Locking Concepts
  • The MSCP Server