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  • Paperback: 792 pages
  • Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (October 26, 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0133390098
  • ISBN-13: 978-0133390094
  • Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 1.6 x 9.1 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsBest book about system performance ever
By Olivier Bernhard on October 25, 2013
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I can still remember when i was downloading Brendan Gregg webinars about disk I/Os. It was obvious, this guy knew a lot about it and could explain it in most efficient way. I was just getting frustrated that all this knowledge was not put into a book. A few years later the "precious" is here ! This book is simply amazing, covering all possible aspects of system performance. You will not be overwhelmed : Brendan knows how to find a good balance between over simplification and too much details. You will learn what you really need to know (the internals), the good methods, the right tools. I can't thank enough Brendan Gregg to bring this new master piece i was waiting for so long.

If you're a system administration, a developper, a "true" database administrator trying to understand how your database is likely to interact with the operating system & hardware, here you are. You can't afford to miss this book.
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5.0 out of 5 starsTechnical book of the year
By Forrest L. Norvell on December 3, 2013
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Good books on analyzing performance seem to come out once every ten years or so, and this is this generation's classic work. Brendan's background in the development of DTrace and the analytic framework that he and his colleagues at Sun / Oracle and then Joyent have built up around it, as well as the methodologies he's been instrumental in developing (most notably the USE method), give him pretty much a unique level of analytic power. He organizes this material conceptually, grounding it in a discussion of tools and methods in chapter 2 and then working through those methods in the chapters that examine such performance topics as CPUs, operating systems, applications, and the like.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThis book has a fixed spot on my desk!
By Pietro Michiardi on December 16, 2013
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I enjoyed reading this book because of its technical depth and rigour: topics are very well developed, and references are generally appropriate (although I sometimes found myself hoping for some must-read "academic" papers to be referenced as well).

In my humble opinion, the use of this book goes beyond that of being a reference for system administrators and performance engineers: I use it extensively to guide my experimental evaluation of the performance of new applications or system components, as it provides solid methodologies that can be clearly described and used by others to validate results.

To conclude, I highly recommend this book: it should become mandatory reading material for students working in systems research.
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4.0 out of 5 starsExcellent book, I've learned a lot from it
By Joe in Los Angeles on July 12, 2014
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I found this to be an excellent resource. I've been reading it slowly in my spare time and on plane rides and it's a big book, I'm about half way now.

The book is well written and I enjoy the breadth and depth of the topics. Each of which is covert from a near beginner to an almost expert level. Which is good for me because my understanding of the topics Brendan covers spans the same range, some I've barely heard of others I use almost every week.

He does cover both Linux and Solaris which make some of the procedure descriptions a bit repetititve but we do have a 90-10 split of Linux and Solaris machines and I may get stuck on a Solaris box one of these days.

My only criticism so far is the glossary could be more complete, I would like to have had EVERY acronym he uses in there because of the slow pace, I'm reading I don't remember the ones we don't use. Very common problem.

I'm using it to increase my skills in tracking down performance problems in software I develop and deploy for an international scientific collaboration. Fortunately for me, I haven't had a hard performance problem since I started reading the book, but I'm not sure how quickly I could use such a tome to solve a specific problem. On the other hand I have used many things I've learned to gain a better understanding of things that are working.

I like most of the reviewers so far would recommend it for anyone with even basic skills who is interested in understanding the issues affecting System Performance.

I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 because of how broad an audience it addresses. While that's a good thing in that people can find what they need it also means there is a lot they don't need.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn outstanding and essential UNIX/Linux performance text!
By Harry J. Foxwell, PhD on November 5, 2013
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Long ago, the prerequisite UNIX performance book was Adrian Cockcroft's 1994 classic, Sun Performance and Tuning: Sparc & Solaris, later updated in 1998 as Java and the Internet. As Solaris evolved to include the invaluable DTrace observability features, new essential performance references have been published, such as Solaris Performance and Tools: DTrace and MDB Techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris (2006) by McDougal, Mauro, and Gregg, and DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD (2011), also by Mauro and Gregg.

Much has occurred in Solaris Land since those books appeared, notably Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010 and the demise of the OpenSolaris community. But operating system technologies have continued to improve markedly in recent years, driven by stunning advances in multicore processor architecture, virtualization, and the massive scalability requirements of cloud computing.

A new performance reference was needed, and I eagerly waited for something that thoroughly covered modern, distributed computing performance issues from the ground up. Well, there's a new classic now, authored yet again by Brendan Gregg, former Solaris kernel engineer at Sun and now Lead Performance Engineer at Joyent.

Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud is a modern, very comprehensive guide to general system performance principles and practices, as well as a highly detailed reference for specific UNIX and Linux observability tools used to examine and diagnose operating system behaviour.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsThree Stars

Useful knowledge there.

Published 2 months ago by Jakub Siemiatkowski
5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

Great book, learn your system by using the tools this book mentioned, and, keep updating with Brendan's blog.

Published 5 months ago by derekdai
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Great book for a software engineer

Published 6 months ago by Michelle R
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Awesome book.

Published 6 months ago by Amazon Customer
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Great book for system software engineer

Published 10 months ago by kent
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A must for understanding the Linux kernel.

Published 10 months ago by Daniel
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

lots of reference material

Published 10 months ago by Martin Alt
5.0 out of 5 starsThis is *the* reference you never knew you always needed ...

This is *the* reference you never knew you always needed if you run into performance issues.

It has saved my sanity on many an occasion, and helped me get things under... Read more

Published 14 months ago by W. E. Blum
3.0 out of 5 starsGood content, physical product is flaky

Awesome book so far, but some pages are falling out. I'd rate it 5 stars if it wasn't falling apart.

Published 15 months ago by fintler
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat book!

I've always wanted a book to learn about system performance. And this is exactly what I wanted!

This book has background information on how computer works, all the way... Read more

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