System Performance Tuning2002
- System Performance Tuning, Second Edition
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Who Should Buy This Book?
- A Note on Coverage
- How to Read This Book
- Organization
- Typographic Conventions
- Comments and Questions
- Personal Comments and Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. An Introduction to Performance Tuning
- 1.1 An Introduction to Computer Architecture
- 1.2 Principles of Performance Tuning
- 1.3 Static Performance Tuning
- 1.4 Concluding Thoughts
- Chapter 2. Workflow Management
- 2.1 Workflow Characterization
- 2.2 Workload Control
- 2.3 Benchmarking
- 2.4 Concluding Thoughts
- Chapter 3. Processors
- 3.1 Microprocessor Architecture
- 3.2 Caching
- 3.3 Process Scheduling
- 3.4 Multiprocessing
- 3.5 Peripheral Interconnects
- 3.6 Processor Performance Tools
- 3.7 Concluding Thoughts
- Chapter 4. Memory
- 4.1 Implementations of Physical Memory
- 4.2 Virtual Memory Architecture
- 4.3 Paging and Swapping
- 4.4 Consumers of Memory
- 4.5 Tools for Memory Performance Analysis
- 4.6 Concluding Thoughts
- Chapter 5. Disks
- 5.1 Disk Architecture
- 5.2 Interfaces
- 5.3 Common Performance Problems
- 5.4 Filesystems
- 5.5 Tools for Analysis
- 5.6 Concluding Thoughts
- Chapter 6. Disk Arrays
- 6.1 Terminology
- 6.2 RAID Levels
- 6.3 Software Versus Hardware
- 6.4 A Summary of Disk Array Design
- 6.5 Software RAID Implementations
- 6.6 RAID Recipes
- 6.7 Concluding Thoughts
- Chapter 7. Networks
- 7.1 Network Principles
- 7.2 Physical Media
- 7.3 Network Interfaces
- 7.4 Network Protocols
- 7.5 NFS
- 7.6 CIFS via Unix
- 7.7 Concluding Thoughts
- Chapter 8. Code Tuning
- 8.1 The Two Critical Approaches
- 8.2 Techniques for Code Analysis
- 8.3 Optimization Patterns
- 8.4 Interacting with Compilers
- 8.5 Concluding Thoughts
- Chapter 9. Instant Tuning
- 9.1 Top Five Tuning Tips
- 9.2 Instant Tuning Recipes
- Colophon
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