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Performance Tuning for Linux(R) Servers Review by W Boudville
detailed benchmarking
IBM continues to unify its operating systems under linux, and to promote its linux-based expertise to others. This book is a good demonstration of its commitment. You are shown how to do detailed benchmarking. Which is necessary before you can do any serious tuning. For if you can't measure some property, improvement of it is harder.
The latest linux kernel, 2.6, is covered. Though much of the advice also pertains to earlier versions, especially 2.4.
En route, the book discreetly plugs IBM's java implementation and JDK. The book is impressive in its restrained treatment [ie. touting] of IBM's products. It's certainly not a sales brochure. The advice is broadly applicable across any hardware that runs linux.