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Linux(R) Debugging and Performance Tuning: Tips and Techniques (Prentice Hall Open Source...
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by Steve Best
Sales Rank: 260069
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List Price: $49.99
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Paperback: 456 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; New title edition October 20, 2005
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0131492470
ISBN-13: 978-0131492479
Product Dimensions:
9.1 x 7 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Product Description
A unique resource that shows Linux kernel AND Linux application programmers how to write bug-free code that's optimized for performance. 1) Debugging techniques for Linux applications and the kernel 2) Performance tuning techniques for Linux application and the kernel. 3) Sample programs that show how debugging tools can find programming errors. 4) Sample programs that show how profiling tools can show which routines applications spend the most time in. 5) Key features that can be set up in the kernel to capture data once a problem occurs.
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Learn Linux debugging and optimizationat kernel and application levelshands-on!
This is the definitive guide to Linux software debugging and performance optimization at both the kernel and application levels. Using extensive Linux code examples, Steve Best systematically introduces open source tools and best-practice techniques for delivering bug-free, well-tuned code.
Drawing on his exceptional experience optimizing Linux systems for IBM, Best covers issues ranging from memory management and I/O to system processes and kernel bug messages. You'll walk through real debugging sessions, discovering the strategies experts use to debug even the most complex application- and kernel-related problems. You'll master sophisticated profiling techniques for identifying and resolving bottlenecks more quickly and learn how to capture the right data in the event of trouble. Coverage includes
Bottleneck identification
Code coverage
Debuggers: gdb, kgdb, and KDB
Memory management
/proc kernel data analysis
System process monitoring
Network performance
Oops bug messages
Syslog and event logging
Execution traces
Profiling kernel behavior
Cache misses
User-Mode Linux
Dynamic probes
Crash dump analysis
And more
Linux® Debugging and Performance Tuning will be indispensable for every developer who needs to supercharge the Linux kernel and applications, and for every administrator and support specialist who must resolve Linux reliability or performance issues.
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Customer Reviews & Comments
If you are more of an administrator than programmer, pay attention to "Debugging" in the title and forget about "Performance Tuning"; this is primarily a programmer's book. More specifically, it's a programmer's book that takes debugging all the way to the kernel, investigating tracing problems right down to kernel level. There's in depth coverage of the tools you need to do this and good case study examples are employed. This is deeper than many will want to go, but if you do want to get into this level of debugging, this is a great place to start.
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Linux(R) Debugging and Performance Tuning: Tips and Techniques (Prentice Hall Open Source...
List Price: $49.99
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