Use the following links to find relevant supplemental information about performance. The information resides on IBM and non-IBM Internet sites, whose sponsors control the technical accuracy of the information.
These links are provided for convenience. Often, the information is not specific to the IBM WebSphere Application Server product, but is useful for understanding the product. When possible, links are provided to technical papers and Redbooks that supplement the broad coverage of the release documentation with in-depth examinations of particular product areas. The following sections are covered in this reference:
View the following links for additional information:
Request metrics
The Open Group ARM specifications.
Monitoring performance with third-party tools
Use IBM's Global Solution Directory to find a list of IBM's business partners that offer performance monitoring tools compliant with WebSphere Application Server.
Tuning performance
This high-level online course is offered through IBM eServer Solutions Enablement. The course describes elements that can affect WebSphere Application Server performance, provides basic guidelines to help you achieve optimal performance, and discusses various available tools that you can use to analyze and tune performance.
Read hints about running Apache on a heavily loaded Web server. The suggestions include how to tune your kernel for the heavier TCP/IP load, and hardware and software conflicts.
See WebSphere Application Server Development Best Practices for Performance and Scalability for more information on application tuning.
View the entire AIX software documentation library for releases 4.3, 5.1, and 5.2.
Describes development best practices for Web applications with servlets, JavaServer Pages files, JDBC connections, and enterprise applications with Enterprise JavaBeans components.
Java (TM) performance resource
Search the IBM developerWorks Web site for a list of garbage collection documentation, including "Understanding the IBM Java Garbage Collector", a three-part series. To locate the documentation, search on "sensible garbage collection" in the developerWorks search application.
Review "Understanding the IBM Java Garbage Collector" for a description of the IBM verbose:gc output and more information about the IBM garbage collector.
Learn more about using garbage collection in a Solaris operating environment.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides links to performance documentation for the Java Platform from operating systems to application servers.
This article examines the optimization process as a whole, rather than focusing on a single technique. You can also use the search function of the IBM developerWorks Web site to find additional information about Java application performance.
Related tasks
Monitoring performance with Tivoli Performance Viewer (TPV)
Why use request metrics?
Tuning the application serving environment
Related information
Tivoli: Performance and Availability Solutions
IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Web Infrastructure