This disclosure relates to a method, article of manufacture, and apparatus of adaptive policy generating for storage system performance optimization. In some embodiments, this includes inspecting a storage system to obtain resources information, wherein the resources information includes attributes associated with a workload of the storage system and corresponding values, wherein the storage system includes an application configured to run a plurality of processes concurrently in an operating system producing a portion of the workload, obtaining one or more percentages, wherein the one or more percentages specifies an optimum proportion of the resources allocated to the application, obtaining amounts of the resources allocated to a process within the plurality of processes, and generating policies as a function of the resources information, the one or more percentages, and the amounts of the resources allocated to the process.