System Performance Tuning

System Performance Tuning

Author: Michael Kosta Loukides

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780937175606

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Introduction to system performance; Monitoring system activity; Managing the workload; Memory performance; Disk performance issues; Network performance; Terminal performance; Kernel configuration.


Systems Performance

Systems Performance

Author: Brendan Gregg

Publisher: Pearson Education

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 777

ISBN-13: 0133390098

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The Complete Guide to Optimizing Systems Performance Written by the winner of the 2013 LISA Award for Outstanding Achievement in System Administration Large-scale enterprise, cloud, and virtualized computing systems have introduced serious performance challenges. Now, internationally renowned performance expert Brendan Gregg has brought together proven methodologies, tools, and metrics for analyzing and tuning even the most complex environments. Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud focuses on Linux(R) and Unix(R) performance, while illuminating performance issues that are relevant to all operating systems. You'll gain deep insight into how systems work and perform, and learn methodologies for analyzing and improving system and application performance. Gregg presents examples from bare-metal systems and virtualized cloud tenants running Linux-based Ubuntu(R), Fedora(R), CentOS, and the illumos-based Joyent(R) SmartOS(TM) and OmniTI OmniOS(R). He systematically covers modern systems performance, including the "traditional" analysis of CPUs, memory, disks, and networks, and new areas including cloud computing and dynamic tracing. This book also helps you identify and fix the "unknown unknowns" of complex performance: bottlenecks that emerge from elements and interactions you were not aware of. The text concludes with a detailed case study, showing how a real cloud customer issue was analyzed from start to finish. Coverage includes - Modern performance analysis and tuning: terminology, concepts, models, methods, and techniques - Dynamic tracing techniques and tools, including examples of DTrace, SystemTap, and perf - Kernel internals: uncovering what the OS is doing - Using system observability tools, interfaces, and frameworks - Understanding and monitoring application performance - Optimizing CPUs: processors, cores, hardware threads, caches, interconnects, and kernel scheduling - Memory optimization: virtual memory, paging, swapping, memory architectures, busses, address spaces, and allocators - File system I/O, including caching - Storage devices/controllers, disk I/O workloads, RAID, and kernel I/O - Network-related performance issues: protocols, sockets, interfaces, and physical connections - Performance implications of OS and hardware-based virtualization, and new issues encountered with cloud computing - Benchmarking: getting accurate results and avoiding common mistakes This guide is indispensable for anyone who operates enterprise or cloud environments: system, network, database, and web admins; developers; and other professionals. For students and others new to optimization, it also provides exercises reflecting Gregg's extensive instructional experience.


Java Performance Tuning

Java Performance Tuning

Author: Jack Shirazi

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2003-01-21

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 0596003773

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Java application performance is tied pretty heavily to the underlying Java Virtual Machine, and the new 1.4 version of Java has significant changes that mean previously used performance tips and strategies may no longer work. Significantly revised and expanded, this second edition not only covers Java 1.4, but adds new coverage of JDBC, NIO, Servlets, EJB and JavaServer Pages. Suitable for intermediate and advanced Java developers, this text also covers JDBC, RMI/CORBA, Servlets, JavaServer Pages and custom tag libraries, XML, internationalization, JavaMail, Enterprise JavaBeans and performance tuning. It should be a useful resource for teaching how to create a tuning strategy, how to use profiling tools to understand a program's behaviour, and how to avoid performance penalties from inefficient code, making them more efficient and effective. The result is code that's robust, maintainable and fast.


Systems Performance

Systems Performance

Author: Brendan Gregg

Publisher: Pearson

Published: 2020-12-09

Total Pages: 2022

ISBN-13: 0136821650

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Systems Performance, Second Edition, covers concepts, strategy, tools, and tuning for operating systems and applications, using Linux-based operating systems as the primary example. A deep understanding of these tools and techniques is critical for developers today. Implementing the strategies described in this thoroughly revised and updated edition can lead to a better end-user experience and lower costs, especially for cloud computing environments that charge by the OS instance. Systems performance expert and best-selling author Brendan Gregg summarizes relevant operating system, hardware, and application theory to quickly get professionals up to speed even if they have never analyzed performance before. Gregg then provides in-depth explanations of the latest tools and techniques, including extended BPF, and shows how to get the most out of cloud, web, and large-scale enterprise systems. Key topics covered include Hardware, kernel, and application internals, and how they perform Methodologies for rapid performance analysis of complex systems Optimizing CPU, memory, file system, disk, and networking usage Sophisticated profiling and tracing with perf, Ftrace, and BPF (BCC and bpftrace) Performance challenges associated with cloud computing hypervisors Benchmarking more effectively Featuring up-to-date coverage of Linux operating systems and environments, Systems Performance, Second Edition, also addresses issues that apply to any computer system. The book will be a go-to reference for many years to come and, like the first edition, required reading at leading tech companies. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.


SQL Performance Tuning

SQL Performance Tuning

Author: Peter Gulutzan

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 9780201791693

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A very practical guide to making databases run faster and better. A poorly performing database application can cost each user time, and have an impact on other applications running on the same computer or the same network. This book will help DBAUs and programmers improve the performance of their databases.


Optimizing NFS Performance

Optimizing NFS Performance

Author: David Olker

Publisher: Prentice Hall Professional

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 0130428167

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In this comprehensive guide that details "behind the scenes" tuning secrets and explains many previously undocumented features, there are real-world performance examples that illustrate how widely available tools can be used to troubleshoot and tune an NFS environment.


Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications

Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications

Author: David H. Bailey

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2010-11-23

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1439815704

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With contributions from some of the most notable experts in the field, Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications presents current research in performance analysis. The book focuses on the following areas.Performance monitoring: Describes the state of the art in hardware and software tools that are commonly used for monitoring and measuring perf


Oracle Applications Performance Tuning Handbook

Oracle Applications Performance Tuning Handbook

Author: Andy Tremayne

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780072125498

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Oracle users can turn to his handbook for a range of strategies, methodologies, hints, and tips that will allow them to solve performance problems. Included are real-world case studies, troubleshooting flowcharts, and detailed but simple methods for troubleshooting and fixing Oracle Application issues. The CD contains a Tuning Toolkit with optimization tools and extensions.


System Performance Tuning

System Performance Tuning

Author: Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2002-02-05

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0596552041

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System Performance Tuning answers one of the most fundamental questions you can ask about your computer: How can I get it to do more work without buying more hardware? In the current economic downturn, performance tuning takes on a new importance. It allows system administrators to make the best use of existing systems and minimize the purchase of new equipment. Well-tuned systems save money and time that would otherwise be wasted dealing with slowdowns and errors. Performance tuning always involves compromises; unless system administrators know what the compromises are, they can't make intelligent decisions.Tuning is an essential skill for system administrators who face the problem of adapting the speed of a computer system to the speed requirements imposed by the real world. It requires a detailed understanding of the inner workings of the computer and its architecture. System Performance Tuning covers two distinct areas: performance tuning, or the art of increasing performance for a specific application, and capacity planning, or deciding what hardware best fulfills a given role. Underpinning both subjects is the science of computer architecture. This book focuses on the operating system, the underlying hardware, and their interactions. Topics covered include: Real and perceived performance problems, introducing capacity planning and performance monitoring (highlighting their strengths and weaknesses). An integrated description of all the major tools at a system administrator's disposal for tracking down system performance problems. Background on modern memory handling techniques, including the memory-caching filesystem implementations in Solaris and AIX. Updated sections on memory conservation and computing memory requirements. In depth discussion of disk interfaces, bandwidth capacity considerations, and RAID systems. Comprehensive discussion of NFS and greatly expanded discussion of networking. Workload management and code tuning. Special topics such as tuning Web servers for various types of content delivery and developments in cross-machine parallel computing For system administrators who want a hands-on introduction to system performance, this is the book to recommend.


Web Performance Tuning

Web Performance Tuning

Author: Patrick Killelea

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9780596001728

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This handbook is for anyone responsible for a Web site, from the person running a personal site off a Linux PC at home up to large corporate site managers who wants to improve their performance right now.