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9780596002848

System Performance Tuning

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    9780596002848

  • ISBN10:

    059600284X

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-02-01
  • Publisher: Oreilly & Associates Inc
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Summary

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 fulfils 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. For system administrators who want a hands-on introduction to system performance, this is the book to recommend.

Author Biography

Mike Loukides is an editor for O'Reilly & Associates. He is the author of System Performance Tuning and UNIX for FORTRAN Programmers. Mike's interests are system administration, networking, programming languages, and computer architecture. His academic background includes degrees in electrical engineering (B.S.) and English literature (Ph.D.).

Table of Contents

Preface ix
An Introduction to Performance Tuning
1(15)
An Introduction to Computer Architecture
2(5)
Principles of Performance Tuning
7(4)
Static Performance Tuning
11(3)
Concluding Thoughts
14(2)
Workflow Management
16(25)
Workflow Characterization
17(8)
Workload Control
25(6)
Benchmarking
31(9)
Concluding Thoughts
40(1)
Processors
41(56)
Microprocessor Architecture
42(8)
Caching
50(6)
Process Scheduling
56(10)
Multiprocessing
66(7)
Peripheral Interconnects
73(8)
Processor Performance Tools
81(15)
Concluding Thoughts
96(1)
Memory
97(30)
Implementations of Physical Memory
98(2)
Virtual Memory Architecture
100(9)
Paging and Swapping
109(3)
Consumers of Memory
112(6)
Tools for Memory Performance Analysis
118(8)
Concluding Thoughts
126(1)
Disks
127(57)
Disk Architecture
128(7)
Interfaces
135(17)
Common Performance Problems
152(2)
Filesystems
154(19)
Tools for Analysis
173(10)
Concluding Thoughts
183(1)
Disk Arrays
184(30)
Terminology
185(1)
RAID Levels
186(10)
Software Versus Hardware
196(1)
A Summary of Disk Array Design
197(1)
Software RAID Implementations
198(12)
RAID Recipes
210(3)
Concluding Thoughts
213(1)
Networks
214(55)
Network Principles
215(3)
Physical Media
218(3)
Network Interfaces
221(13)
Network Protocols
234(19)
NFS
253(14)
CIFS via Unix
267(1)
Concluding Thoughts
268(1)
Code Tuning
269(33)
The Two Critical Approaches
269(7)
Techniques for Code Analysis
276(15)
Optimization Patterns
291(3)
Interacting with Compilers
294(7)
Concluding Thoughts
301(1)
Instant Tuning
302(11)
Top Five Tuning Tips
302(3)
Instant Tuning Recipes
305(8)
Index 313

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