Useful Websites; Related Books - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 3 - INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

Chapter 2. Resource Monitoring

2.6.2. Useful Websites

http://linuxperf.nl.linux.org/ — The Linux Performance Tuning homepage. Provides a good in-
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troductory overview of resource monitoring for performance tuning purposes. The mailing list,
unfortunately, appears to have been overrun by spam and is no longer used.
http://people.redhat.com/alikins/system_tuning.html — System Tuning Info for Linux Servers. A
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stream-of-consciousness approach to performance tuning and resource monitoring for servers.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2396 — Performance Monitoring Tools for Linux.
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This Linux Journal page is geared more toward the administrator interested in writing a customized
performance graphing solution. Written several years ago, some of the details may no longer apply,
but the overall concept and execution are sound.
http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/ — OProfile project website. Includes valuable OProfile resources,
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including pointers to mailing lists and the #oprofile IRC channel.

2.6.3. Related Books

The following books discuss various issues related to resource monitoring and are good resources for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators:
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administration Guide; Red Hat, Inc. — Includes information
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on many of the resource monitoring tools described here, including OProfile.
Linux Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning by Jason R. Fink and Matthew D. Sherer; Sams
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— Provides more in-depth overviews of the resource monitoring tools presented here and includes
others that might be appropriate for more specific resource monitoring needs.
Red Hat Linux Security and Optimization by Mohammed J. Kabir; Red Hat Press — Approximately
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the first 150 pages of this book discuss performance-related issues. This includes chapters dedicated
to performance issues specific to network, Web, email, and file servers.
Linux Administration Handbook by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, and Trent R. Hein; Prentice Hall
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— Provides a short chapter similar in scope to this book, but includes an interesting section on
diagnosing a system that has suddenly slowed down.
Linux System Administration: A User's Guide by Marcel Gagne; Addison Wesley Professional —
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Contains a small chapter on performance monitoring and tuning.
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