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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: 207670
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Discount: 28 %
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Paperback: 456 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR 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
Back Cover Copy
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.
© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.
About The Author
Steve Best works in the Linux Technology Center of IBM in Austin, Texas. He is currently working on Linux storage-related products. Steve has led the Journaled File System (JFS) for Linux project. Steve has worked on Linux-related projects since 1999 and has done extensive work in operating system development focusing on file systems, internationalization, and security. Steve is the author of numerous magazine articles, many presentations, and the file system chapters in Performance Tuning Linux Servers (Prentice Hall PTR 2005).
© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.
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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