Debugging performance problems on AIX

Locating the causes of poor performance is often difficult. Although many factors can affect performance, the overall effect is generally perceived as poor response time or slow execution of your program.

Correcting one performance problem might cause more problems in another area. By finding and correcting a bottleneck in one place you might only shift the cause of poor performance to other areas. To improve performance, experiment with tuning different parameters, monitoring the effect, and retuning until you are satisfied that your system is performing acceptably