Profiling with Perf Tools
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What is Profiling with Perf Tools?
Perf tools is a suite of performance analysis tools that comes as part of the Linux kernel. It enables you to monitor various performance-related events happening in your system, such as CPU cycles, instructions executed, cache misses, and other hardware-related metrics. These tools can be helpful in understanding the bottlenecks and performance issues in your PostgreSQL instance and can be used to discover areas of improvement.
Free resources to learn Profiling with Perf Tools
- Official docsperf: Linux profiling with performance counters
- ArticleProfiling with Linux perf tool
More in stage 12: SQL Query Patterns / Anti-patterns
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Profiling with Perf Tools: common questions
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Is this Profiling with Perf Tools tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 138 of 170 in the free PostgreSQL roadmap, in stage 12, SQL Query Patterns / Anti-patterns. If you are new to PostgreSQL, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.