Review: Performance Tuning for Linux Servers
Novell Cool Solutions: Feature
By Kirk Coombs
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Posted: 16 Aug 2005 |
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This book is available through the Novell Press.
From the publisher:
From Wall Street to Hollywood, Linux runs many of the world's most business-critical systems. Linux performance now impacts the entire enterprise. In Performance Tuning for Linux Servers, a team of IBM's most-experienced Linux performance specialists shows you how to find bottlenecks, measure performance, and identify effective optimizations.
This book doesn't just cover kernel tuning: it shows how to maximize the end-to-end performance of real-world applications and databases running on Linux. Throughout, the authors present realistic examples based on today's most popular enterprise Linux® platforms, Intel®-based Red Hat® Enterprise Linux, and Novell® SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server. These examples are designed for simplicity, clarity, and easy adaptation to any contemporary Linux environment.
Review:
Essential for any administrator who needs to squeeze maximum
performance from their Linux server, Performance
Tuning for Linux Servers offers excellent information on almost
any performance-related aspect of a Linux server. Written for both the
novice and the expert, it prepares the reader for technical details by
first explaining the background of each topic. For example, an
entire chapter is devoted to the various server architectures
available, including multiprocessing, enterprise servers, and
clustering--helping the reader become familiar with what technologies
are available, and empowering them to make informed decisions. The
content is generic and can be applied to almost any
Linux distribution, but focuses on SUSE Linux Enterprise server and Red
Hat Enterprise Linux.
Performance Tuning for Linux Server
begins with the basics: deciding on a server architecture,
understanding the Linux kernel, and being aware installation
issues. Next, it outlines the skills required to track down
performance problems, including: explanations of the basic Linux tools
such as top, vmstat, and netstat;
introductions to system trace tools
such as strace and OProfile; and an
introduction to benchmarking.
Once the reader knows how to track down problems, they are presented
with information on tuning almost any aspect of the system, from the
scheduler to the file system. Next, tuning various server
applications such as web servers, database servers, and application
servers is covered. Perhaps most important, several case
studies guide the reader through various scenarios and show them
how to practically approach each situation.
Any administrator who needs to boost the performance of their Linux
server can count on Performance
Tuning for Linux Servers to be a reliable and informative
resource.
Topics include:
- Installation Issues
- The Linux Kernel
- Server Architectures
- System Performance Monitoring
- System Trace Tools
- Benchmarks
- The Linux Scheduler
- Virtual Memory
- I/O Subsystems
- File Systems
- Networking
- Interprocess Communication
- Linux Code
- Web Servers
- File and Print Servers
- Database Severs
- Application Servers
- Tuning Kernel Parameters
- Case Studies for:
- Benchmarking
- Tuning The I/O Schedulers in Linux 2.6
- File System Tuning
- Network Performance
- Commercial Workload Tuning
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