Optimizing Linux Performance: A Hands-On Guide to Linux Performance Tools
Optimizing Linux Performance: A Hands-On Guide to Linux Performance Tools
ISBN: 0131486829
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 132
Pages: 132
Authors: Phillip G. Ezolt
- Optimizing Linux Performance: A Hands-On Guide to Linux Performance Tools
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Hewlett-Packard Professional Books
- Preface
- Why Is Performance Important?
- Linux: Strengths and Weakness
- How Can This Book Help You?
- Why Learn How to Use Performance Tools?
- Can I Tune for Performance?
- Who Should Read This Book?
- How Is This Book Organized?
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Chapter 1. Performance Hunting Tips
- 1.1. General Tips
- 1.2. Outline of a Performance Investigation
- 1.3. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 2. Performance Tools: System CPU
- 2.1. CPU Performance Statistics
- 2.2. Linux Performance Tools: CPU
- 2.3. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 3. Performance Tools: System Memory
- 3.1. Memory Performance Statistics
- 3.2. Linux Performance Tools: CPU and Memory
- 3.3. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 4. Performance Tools: Process-Specific CPU
- 4.1. Process Performance Statistics
- 4.2. The Tools
- 4.3. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 5. Performance Tools: Process-Specific Memory
- 5.1. Linux Memory Subsystem
- 5.2. Memory Performance Tools
- 5.3. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 6. Performance Tools: Disk IO
- 6.1. Introduction to Disk IO
- 6.2. Disk IO Performance Tools
- 6.3. What s Missing?
- 6.4. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 7. Performance Tools: Network
- 7.1. Introduction to Network IO
- 7.2. Network Performance Tools
- 7.3. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 8. Utility Tools: Performance Tool Helpers
- 8.1. Performance Tool Helpers
- 8.2. Tools
- 8.3. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 9. Using Performance Tools to Find Problems
- 9.1. Not Always a Silver Bullet
- 9.2. Starting the Hunt
- 9.3. Optimizing an Application
- 9.4. Optimizing a System
- 9.5. Optimizing Process CPU Usage
- 9.6. Optimizing Memory Usage
- 9.7. Optimizing Disk IO Usage
- 9.8. Optimizing Network IO Usage
- 9.9. The End
- 9.10. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 10. Performance Hunt 1: A CPU-Bound Application (GIMP)
- 10.1. CPU-Bound Application
- 10.2. Identify a Problem
- 10.3. Find a BaselineSet a Goal
- 10.4. Configure the Application for the Performance Hunt
- 10.5. Install and Configure Performance Tools
- 10.6. Run Application and Performance Tools
- 10.7. Analyze the Results
- 10.8. Jump to the Web
- 10.9. Increase the Image Cache
- 10.10. Hitting a (Tiled) Wall
- 10.11. Solving the Problem
- 10.12. Verify Correctness?
- 10.13. Next Steps
- 10.14. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 11. Performance Hunt 2: A Latency-Sensitive Application (nautilus)
- 11.1. A Latency-Sensitive Application
- 11.2. Identify a Problem
- 11.3. Find a BaselineSet a Goal
- 11.4. Configure the Application for the Performance Hunt
- 11.5. Install and Configure Performance Tools
- 11.6. Run Application and Performance Tools
- 11.7. Compile and Examine the Source
- 11.8. Using gdb to Generate Call Traces
- 11.9. Finding the Time Differences
- 11.10. Trying a Possible Solution
- 11.11. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 12. Performance Hunt 3: The System-Wide Slowdown (prelink)
- 12.1. Investigating a System-Wide Slowdown
- 12.2. Identify a Problem
- 12.3. Find a BaselineSet a Goal
- 12.4. Configure the Application for the Performance Hunt
- 12.5. Install and Configure Performance Tools
- 12.6. Run Application and Performance Tools
- 12.7. Simulating a Solution
- 12.8. Reporting the Problem
- 12.9. Testing the Solution
- 12.10. Chapter Summary
- Chapter 13. Performance Tools: What s Next?
- 13.1. The State of Linux Tools
- 13.2. What Tools Does Linux Still Need?
- 13.3. Performance Tuning on Linux
- 13.4. Chapter Summary
- Appendix A. Performance Tool Locations
- Appendix B. Installing oprofile
- B.1 Fedora Core 2 (FC2)
- B.2 Enterprise Linux 3 (EL3)
- B.3 SUSE 9.1
- Index
- index_SYMBOL
- index_A
- index_B
- index_C
- index_D
- index_E
- index_F
- index_G
- index_H
- index_I
- index_J
- index_K
- index_L
- index_M
- index_N
- index_O
- index_P
- index_R
- index_S
- index_T
- index_U
- index_V
- index_W
- index_X
Optimizing Linux Performance: A Hands-On Guide to Linux Performance Tools
ISBN: 0131486829
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 132
Pages: 132
Authors: Phillip G. Ezolt