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Systems Performance, 2nd Edition

Brendan Gregg

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Systems Performance, 2nd Edition covers concepts, strategy, tools and tuning for Unix operating systems, with a focus on those that are Linux- and Solaris-based.

World-renowned system performance expert Brendan Gregg summarizes relevant operating system theory to quickly get students up to speed even if they’ve never optimized operating systems before, and to refresh and update advanced readers’ knowledge. Next, Gregg illuminates the latest tools and techniques, including dynamic tracing using DTrace and SystemTap, showing how to get the most out of your systems in cloud, web, and large-scale enterprise environments. He covers these and other key topics:

Performance analysis and capacity planning
Latency as a key theme for analysis
New performance challenges associated with cloud computing
Optimizing CPU, memory, file system, disk, and networking usage
Sophisticated dynamic tracing with perf, ftrace, and BPF
Benchmarking more effectively

Fully updated for current Linux/Unix operating systems and environments, Systems Performance, 2nd Edition addresses issues that apply across multiple distributions and are likely to remain crucial for many years to come.

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Other Student Resources

Systems Performance (Oasis), 2nd Edition
Gregg
©2021

Format	Digital Access Code
ISBN-13:	9780136821953
Online purchase price	$47.99
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Discipline Resources

Bridge Page t/a A First Course
Ullman & Widom
©2008

Format	Website
ISBN-13:	9780135140758
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book cover — Systems Performance, 2nd Edition

Gregg

©2021 | Pearson | 928 pp

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About the Author(s)

Brendan Gregg is an industry expert in computing performance and cloud computing. He is a senior performance architect at Netflix, where he does performance design, evaluation, analysis, and tuning. The author of multiple technical books including BPF Performance Tools and Systems Performance, he received the USENIX LISA Award for Outstanding Achievement in System Administration. He has also been a kernel engineer and performance lead, and was program co-chair for the USENIX LISA 2018 conference. He has created performance tools included in multiple operating systems, and visualizations and methodologies for performance analysis, including flame graphs.

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UNIX--Advanced (Computer Science)