Hands-on Lab·Red Hat Certified System Administrator
System Tuning with tuned
A small objective, usually taught as three commands to memorise. This measures what a profile actually changes - `vm.swappiness` reads 60, 10 and 30 under three different profiles - so the abstraction becomes something you can verify.
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- OSRHEL 10.0 (Coughlan)
- Kernel6.12.0-55.9.1.el10_0
- dnf4.20.0
- Flatpak1.16.0
- TimeAbout 11 min
- Reviewed23 August 2026
Written against the versions above. `tuned` is installed and enabled by default on RHEL. `tuned-adm recommend` picks a profile from the hardware, and on a virtual machine that is `virtual-guest`. The profile choice persists in `/etc/tuned/active_profile`.
| Server Name | IP Address | OS | Roles | CPU | RAM | HDD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RHCSA-A01 | 192.168.0.31 | RHEL 10.0 (Coughlan) | Practice node (graded) - spare /dev/sda | 2 Core | 4 GB | 50 GB + 15 GB |
Before you start
- A sudo-capable account.
- The session switches profiles and restores
virtual-guestat the end.
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What is active, and what is available
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What `recommend` decides, and why
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Proving a profile does something
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Verifying, switching off, and where the choice lives