Part V. Kernel Tuning

Contents

12. Installing Multiple Kernel Versions
12.1. Enabling and Configuring Multiversion Support
12.2. Installing/Removing Multiple Kernel Versions with YaST
12.3. Installing/Removing Multiple Kernel Versions with zypper
13. Tuning I/O Performance
13.1. Switching I/O Scheduling
13.2. Available I/O Elevators
13.3. I/O Barrier Tuning
14. Tuning the Task Scheduler
14.1. Introduction
14.2. Process Classification
14.3. O(1) Scheduler
14.4. Completely Fair Scheduler
14.5. For More Information
15. Tuning the Memory Management Subsystem
15.1. Memory Usage
15.2. Reducing Memory Usage
15.3. Virtual Memory Manager (VM) Tunable Parameters
15.4. Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA)
15.5. Monitoring VM Behavior
16. Tuning the Network
16.1. Configurable Kernel Socket Buffers
16.2. Detecting Network Bottlenecks and Analyzing Network Traffic
16.3. Netfilter
16.4. For More Information