13 Tuning Operating Systems for Performance

This chapter describes tuning steps designed to improve the performance and scalability of your Siebel Enterprise Server or Siebel Application Interface installation. It contains the following topics:

Before doing any of the procedures in this chapter, you must have completed the minimum necessary steps described in the chapters about installation and configuration tasks for the Siebel Gateway, Siebel Enterprise, Siebel Server and Siebel Application Interface, as described in the Siebel Installation Guide for the operating system you are using. See also Siebel System Administration Guide and Siebel System Monitoring and Diagnostics Guide.

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The settings provided in this chapter are based on a controlled lab environment using a standard Siebel application, such as Siebel Call Center. The degree of performance gained by using these settings at your site depends on your implementation. Contact your vendor for additional tuning recommendations for your supported operating system. Information is provided where tuning recommendations apply. In general, it can be assumed that tuning is not required if no recommendations are provided. For example, no information is provided about tuning the kernel on Linux operating systems, because such tuning is not necessary in those cases.