Performance-related subroutines
AIX supports several subroutines that can be used in monitoring and tuning performance.
- bindprocessor()
- Binds kernel threads to a processor
- getpri()
- Determines the scheduling priority of a running process
- getpriority()
- Determines the nice value of a running process
- getrusage()
- Retrieves information about the use of system resources
- nice()
- Increments the nice value of the current process
- psdanger()
- Retrieves information about paging space use
- setpri()
- Changes the priority of a running process to a fixed priority
- setpriority()
- Sets the nice value of a running process