This presentation will describe how to configure and tune the Red Hat Entrerprise Linux kernel for optimal performance. The first section will discuss how to determine if a system running RHEL is a achieving optimal performance for a variety of commercial applications and industry standard benchmarks in terms of throughput and latency. The second section will explore a variety of kernel tuning parameters and discuss how each one effects the system performance. The third section will give actual examples of how RHEL was tuned to achieve industry leading performance for a variety of applications and benchmarks running on a variety of different hardware platforms.
