You can find a Performance Testing & Engineering Tips series in this article. Performance Testing and Engineering Experts provide these tips. Refer to their articles and videos to grow your performance testing and engineering skills. Today’s Topic: Troubleshooting applications and back-end performance with APM 360 Published By: New Relic About Topic: In this 90-minute video … Read more
When it comes to the memory management of a software application, garbage collection is crucial. Actually, the memory of unused or unreferenced objects is recovered by a Java program called Garbage Collector. It means that, like other Java codes, the GC executes when a certain condition, such as memory fullness, is met. GC affects the … Read more
Linux server performance monitoring through the ‘ss’ command provides the monitoring statistics related to network sockets and connections. ‘ss’ stands for ‘Socket Statistics’ and it is a simpler and faster version of the obsolete command ‘netstat’. ‘ss’ utility completely replaces ‘netstat’ in the Linux Performance Monitoring system which provides more advanced features and flexibility. It has … Read more
Linux server performance monitoring through the ‘iostat’ command provides general information about disk operations and related statistics. ‘iostat’ stands for ‘Input/Output Statistics’ and it is a utility that monitors system input/output by observing the time the devices are active in relation to their average read and write rates. The output of the command ‘iostat’ helps … Read more
Linux server performance monitoring through the ‘vmstat’ command, is one of the oldest and most valuable ways to capture memory statistics. ‘vmstat’ stands for ‘Virtual Memory Statistics’ and it is a utility that provides an excellent low-overhead view of system performance. Because ‘vmstat’ is such a low-overhead tool, it is practical to keep it running … Read more
This article contains important Linux commands to help performance testers and engineers working on Linux systems. Linux Command Description Important Options sudo Super User DO: To perform tasks that require administrative or root permissions. Example: $ sudo -g -h -k su Switch User: To run a command with another user Example: $ su admin2 -p … Read more