OPTIMIZING LINUX PERFORMANCE

This book provides readers with a quick method to understand the basics of the Linux performance tools and allows the tools to be used immediately. It covers the most recent (and powerful) of the Linux performance tools. For each tool, this book provides information about the tools purpose, the tools options, and an example of how to use the tool. It provides readers with a general method for tracking down Linux performance problems while requiring a minimal knowledge of the underlying system, allowing the reader to be more productive and less intimidated by the performance problem at hand. Finally, and most importantly, the reader is shown case studies that use performance tools and methodologies to diagnose and fix a performance problem on example open source applications. These case studies will save readers a large amount of time, allowing them to simply adapt a technique that already works rather than inventing their own.