How to prove that a function is compact (closed and bounded)?

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The specific function I am looking at is

$f(x_1,x_2) = x_1x_2 + \frac 1{x_1} + \frac 1{x_2}$, where

for a fixed $a > 0, f(x) \le a$ and $(x1,x2) > 0 $

I'm really just looking for where to start. Do I have to look at the extremas of the function?