Systems Performance by Gregg, Brendan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

About This eBook Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface

About This Book Operating System Coverage Other Content What Isn’t Covered How This Book Is Structured As a Future Reference Tracing Examples Intended Audience Typographic Conventions Supplemental Material and References

Acknowledgments About the Author 1. Introduction

1.1. Systems Performance 1.2. Roles 1.3. Activities 1.4. Perspectives 1.5. Performance Is Challenging 1.6. Latency 1.7. Dynamic Tracing 1.8. Cloud Computing 1.9. Case Studies

2. Methodology

2.1. Terminology 2.2. Models 2.3. Concepts 2.4. Perspectives 2.5. Methodology 2.6. Modeling 2.7. Capacity Planning 2.8. Statistics 2.9. Monitoring 2.10. Visualizations 2.11. Exercises 2.12. References

3. Operating Systems

3.1. Terminology 3.2. Background 3.3. Kernels 3.4. Exercises 3.5. References

4. Observability Tools

4.1. Tool Types 4.2. Observability Sources 4.3. DTrace 4.4. SystemTap 4.5. perf 4.6. Observing Observability 4.7. Exercises 4.8. References

5. Applications

5.1. Application Basics 5.2. Application Performance Techniques 5.3. Programming Languages 5.4. Methodology and Analysis 5.5. Exercises 5.6. References

6. CPUs

6.1. Terminology 6.2. Models 6.3. Concepts 6.4. Architecture 6.5. Methodology 6.6. Analysis 6.7. Experimentation 6.8. Tuning 6.9. Exercises 6.10. References

7. Memory

7.1. Terminology 7.2. Concepts 7.3. Architecture 7.4. Methodology 7.5. Analysis 7.6. Tuning 7.7. Exercises 7.8. References

8. File Systems

8.1. Terminology 8.2. Models 8.3. Concepts 8.4. Architecture 8.5. Methodology 8.6. Analysis 8.7. Experimentation 8.8. Tuning 8.9. Exercises 8.10. References

9. Disks

9.1. Terminology 9.2. Models 9.3. Concepts 9.4. Architecture 9.5. Methodology 9.6. Analysis 9.7. Experimentation 9.8. Tuning 9.9. Exercises 9.10. References

10. Network

10.1. Terminology 10.2. Models 10.3. Concepts 10.4. Architecture 10.5. Methodology 10.6. Analysis 10.7. Experimentation 10.8. Tuning 10.9. Exercises 10.10. References

11. Cloud Computing

11.1. Background 11.2. OS Virtualization 11.3. Hardware Virtualization 11.4. Comparisons 11.5. Exercises 11.6. References

12. Benchmarking

12.1. Background 12.2. Benchmarking Types 12.3. Methodology 12.4. Benchmark Questions 12.5. Exercises 12.6. References

13. Case Study

13.1. Case Study: The Red Whale 13.2. Comments 13.3. Additional Information 13.4. References

Appendix A. USE Method: Linux

Physical Resources Software Resources Reference

Appendix B. USE Method: Solaris

Physical Resources Software Resources References

Appendix C. sar Summary

Linux Solaris

Appendix D. DTrace One-Liners

syscall Provider proc Provider profile Provider sched Provider fbt Provider pid Provider io Provider sysinfo Provider vminfo Provider ip Provider tcp provider udp provider

Appendix E. DTrace to SystemTap

Functionality Terminology Probes Built-in Variables Functions Example 1: Listing syscall Entry Probes Example 2: Summarize read() Returned Size Example 3: Count syscalls by Process Name Example 4: Count syscalls by syscall Name, for Process ID 123 Example 5: Count syscalls by syscall Name, for “httpd” Processes Example 6: Trace File open()s with Process Name and Path Name Example 7: Summarize read() Latency for “mysqld” Processes Example 8: Trace New Processes with Process Name and Arguments Example 9: Sample Kernel Stacks at 100 Hz References

Appendix F. Solutions to Selected Exercises

Chapter 2—Methodology Chapter 3—Operating Systems Chapter 6—CPUs Chapter 7—Memory Chapter 8—File Systems Chapter 9—Disks Chapter 11—Cloud Computing

Appendix G. Systems Performance Who’s Who Glossary Bibliography Index

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