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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, ...more
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, ...more
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Paperback, 735 pages
Published
October 26th 2013
by Prentice Hall
(first published September 27th 2013)
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This isn't a book, so much as it is a reference manual or an appendix. It's nearly 800 pages of dense, low-level discussions of performance issues related to the CPU, memory, hard drive, OS, and so on. The writing is very structured, repetitive, and dry and resembles a list of facts more than prose. If you have a specific performance issue and need to know how to, say, use DTrace to diagnose an issue with a memory leak, this book is perfect. If you're looking for something you can read cover to
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Highly recommended!
Do not let the size daunts you however. Chapters are self-contained, as the author understands that the book might be read under pressure, and contain useful exercises at the end.
What really makes this book stands out, is not the top-notch technical writing or abundance of useful one-liners, is the fact that the author moves forward and suggests a methodology for troubleshooting and performance analysis, as opposed to the ad-hoc methods of the past (or best case scenario a checklist and $DEITY ...more
What really makes this book stands out, is not the top-notch technical writing or abundance of useful one-liners, is the fact that the author moves forward and suggests a methodology for troubleshooting and performance analysis, as opposed to the ad-hoc methods of the past (or best case scenario a checklist and $DEITY ...more
Great book for any Linux Operations guys out there to test and determine metrics for your infrastructure.
Absolutely amazing book on performance measurement. Contains a lot of theory how to measure performance (starting from "what performance really is" - and it is not so obvious) to example how to drill down. This books contains a lot of practical examples on performance issues investigation. Looks slightly outdated (tap, solaris, DTrace) but it is really worth reading for admins and every person who cares about performance.
The book addresses two different questions:
1. How to analyze systems performance? (Methodology)
2. How to use tools to achieve these goals? (Tools)
The first question is thoroughly answered in the book. However, the second question is pretty outdated for Linux.
1. How to analyze systems performance? (Methodology)
2. How to use tools to achieve these goals? (Tools)
The first question is thoroughly answered in the book. However, the second question is pretty outdated for Linux.
Though at risk of being a tad ranty about how Solaris is better than linux, Brendan Gregg's detail and understanding of Kernel development and performance is comprehensive and both introduces the topic and then guides the reader through how to measure it. It's a must-read for Linux developers.
Grail of performance issues/improvements.
Внушительный справочник по перфомансу, читать один раз явно недостаточно.
Brings down performance analysis to actual commands and methodologies you can directly use. Quite nice read.
I bought and started to read this book to prepare myself for a job interview. Really recommendable.
Ps: I finally got the job :)
Ps: I finally got the job :)
Good to skim through to learn about what is possible and out there, but it's more like a reference book to check when needed with a specific performance problem.
An in-depth look at modern Linux introspection, functioning, tools and metrics.
The USE method is very helpful for an SRE.
The USE method is very helpful for an SRE.
The Bible of following topic
One of my most favourite everything-reference when I need to do system benchmark/trouble-shooting. This book covers almost all aspects of low-level stuff from kernel to network-protocol, or file system, disk system. Highly recommended.
This book is nightmarishly good. I figured it would take months to slog through it, but was able to in 4 months. I was a bit nutty, since I took handwritten notes.
Book I wanted to have when I first started my career. All the stuff in OS classes and things gleaned from experience wrapped up in one, with exercises at chapter's end to test your knowledge, well-written text, graphics that accurately capture and describe topics and a mild amount of human humour injected where appropriate.
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Book I wanted to have when I first started my career. All the stuff in OS classes and things gleaned from experience wrapped up in one, with exercises at chapter's end to test your knowledge, well-written text, graphics that accurately capture and describe topics and a mild amount of human humour injected where appropriate.
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A very good introduction into systems performance. This book touches system's performance
all the way from bottom(hardware) to up(to the application level). The systematic approach
taken in each chapter will teach principles and methods of system performance along with the tools like DTrace. It shows how to use tools on the real world cases giving a solid introduction on the "why" part of performance issue.
I hope the future edition will include more modern tools for Linux like eBPF. Otherwise, ...more
all the way from bottom(hardware) to up(to the application level). The systematic approach
taken in each chapter will teach principles and methods of system performance along with the tools like DTrace. It shows how to use tools on the real world cases giving a solid introduction on the "why" part of performance issue.
I hope the future edition will include more modern tools for Linux like eBPF. Otherwise, ...more
This book details how to approach software performance issues. It explains how to observe, measure and visualise what is happening in the OS and beyond (only on the Linux and Solaris platforms). I don't think the book reads very well from cover to cover, but I did devour the first chapters that explain the concepts and methodologies, as well as the final the case study. To my opinion, the rest seems more of a reference to consult when faced with a particular performance issue as they covers CPU,
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My favorite book ever. I haven't read a book better than this on the topic of system performance. Brendan is definitely one of the foremost Engineers in the world. This should be a mandatory reading for everyone willing to become a performance engineer. Can't recommend this book highly enough.
A brilliant book. Gregg takes a microscope to the operating system and shows what goes on under the hood. One of the best computer science books I have ever read.
Note: get the dead tree book or the pdf. Epub formatting is dreadful.
Note: get the dead tree book or the pdf. Epub formatting is dreadful.
Excellent .
Great book, provides a wide view of systems performance. Must read for anyone interested in the subject.
One of must-read books for systems people.
Covers methodologies ask and tools for performance analysis as well as explains systems internals.
Covers methodologies ask and tools for performance analysis as well as explains systems internals.
Good introductory book for computer architecture from HW/SW perspective.
Good reference book for performance monitoring.
Good reference book for performance monitoring.
Excellent all-round intro how to look into performance issues
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“Beyond 60% utilization, the average response time doubles. By 80%, it has tripled. As disk I/O latency is often the bounding resource for an application, increasing the average latency by double or higher can have a significant negative effect on application performance. This is why disk utilization can become a problem well before it reaches 100%, as it is a queueing system where requests (typically) cannot be interrupted and must wait their turn.”
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