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Originally posted by Cliphead View Post+1
VM's are your friend if you don't have spare hardware. I now use VM's to clone production systems so any signifcant changes can be tested before deploying on a live server. I also use the same to test new server OS versions, updates / upgrades and just about anything else that might make a performance improvement (other than physical hardware). Love my job as a sysadmin and I learn something new every day.
PS Security is just as important as performance tweaking and that's a whole topic in itself.
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Originally posted by administrator View PostIMO it would just depend on what you are looking to improve in terms of performance. If your system is running databases and top is showing they are hogging resource then it is that the code is not well optimised, that the database system is not optimised for the hardware or that the hardware is not good enough to meet the demands placed upon it.
As others have said a lot of this comes down to experience, knowing a bit about sysadmin is good, being able to identify if the database queries or the code layer are causing a problem can be worked out a lot of the time by examining slow queries - mtop I find really hand to indentify DB issues. Other times speed of system is simply down to disk IO and the only way to speed up systems is to improve hardware (use of SSD or SAS instead of SATA for example) but it really does depend on what you have running and where you are seeing bottlenecks.
Here are a few bits from my bookmarks:
20 Linux System Monitoring Tools Every SysAdmin Should Know
https://lwn.net/Articles/387202/
Postfix Performance Tuning
From what you have said you can do already you pretty much are a sysadmin. If you want to get work in this field then I guess it is the same as any new skill, blag a lower level position, learn as much as you can and after a year or two go contracting
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Originally posted by RasputinDude View PostUltimately, there's no substitute for experience. If you can do most of that already, then you're most of the way there.
After that, I would suggest that most of your issues will be around topology, infrastructure and trying to keep rubbish application suites going. Oh and users, of course. No-one has yet found a way to get rid of the users stuffing things up.
My reason for wanting more knowledge is that it's getting depressing seeing only 1 or 2 Perl developer contracts come up every few months and wanting to get hardcore with something else. Linux seems the best way to go because of all i've learnt with it.
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Originally posted by petergriffin View Post
If you really need to go the RHEL route, stick withCentOSScientific Linux. Fedora and Centos6 are pure junk.
FTFY
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Originally posted by b0redom View PostAhh yes. I can see the conversation with the pimp now.
"I need someone with Centos or Redhat Enterprise Linux."
"I have Slackware - that's basically the same with a different kernel and config files in different places."
"Ah yes, but they say they want Centos or RHEL. I guess you're not a good fit. Goodbye."
QEMU for Windows
Manual is here:
QEMU Emulator User Documentation
If you really need to go the RHEL route, stick with CentOS. Fedora is pure junk.
I have learnt a lot from the IBM Developer Works site:
IBM developerWorks : Linux
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Originally posted by administrator View PostFrom what you have said you can do already you pretty much are a sysadmin. If you want to get work in this field then I guess it is the same as any new skill, blag a lower level position, learn as much as you can and after a year or two go contracting
VM's are your friend if you don't have spare hardware. I now use VM's to clone production systems so any signifcant changes can be tested before deploying on a live server. I also use the same to test new server OS versions, updates / upgrades and just about anything else that might make a performance improvement (other than physical hardware). Love my job as a sysadmin and I learn something new every day.
PS Security is just as important as performance tweaking and that's a whole topic in itself.
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IMO it would just depend on what you are looking to improve in terms of performance. If your system is running databases and top is showing they are hogging resource then it is that the code is not well optimised, that the database system is not optimised for the hardware or that the hardware is not good enough to meet the demands placed upon it.
As others have said a lot of this comes down to experience, knowing a bit about sysadmin is good, being able to identify if the database queries or the code layer are causing a problem can be worked out a lot of the time by examining slow queries - mtop I find really hand to indentify DB issues. Other times speed of system is simply down to disk IO and the only way to speed up systems is to improve hardware (use of SSD or SAS instead of SATA for example) but it really does depend on what you have running and where you are seeing bottlenecks.
Here are a few bits from my bookmarks:
20 Linux System Monitoring Tools Every SysAdmin Should Know
https://lwn.net/Articles/387202/
Postfix Performance Tuning
From what you have said you can do already you pretty much are a sysadmin. If you want to get work in this field then I guess it is the same as any new skill, blag a lower level position, learn as much as you can and after a year or two go contracting
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Ahh yes. I can see the conversation with the pimp now.
"I need someone with Centos or Redhat Enterprise Linux."
"I have Slackware - that's basically the same with a different kernel and config files in different places."
"Ah yes, but they say they want Centos or RHEL. I guess you're not a good fit. Goodbye."
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Originally posted by petergriffin View PostAnd: If you learn RHEL, you know RHEL, if you learn Slackware you know Linux.
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Originally posted by RasputinDude View PostUltimately, there's no substitute for experience. If you can do most of that already, then you're most of the way there.
After that, I would suggest that most of your issues will be around topology, infrastructure and trying to keep rubbish application suites going. Oh and users, of course. No-one has yet found a way to get rid of the users stuffing things up.
And: If you learn RHEL, you know RHEL, if you learn Slackware you know Linux.
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Ultimately, there's no substitute for experience. If you can do most of that already, then you're most of the way there.
After that, I would suggest that most of your issues will be around topology, infrastructure and trying to keep rubbish application suites going. Oh and users, of course. No-one has yet found a way to get rid of the users stuffing things up.
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Originally posted by RasputinDude View PostYou may want to look at the RedHat Certified System Administrator course.
Red Hat | Training | Red Hat Certified System Administrator
Cheers for the link though, i'll dig around for a more advanced stage.
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You may want to look at the RedHat Certified System Administrator course.
Red Hat | Training | Red Hat Certified System Administrator
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