2.6 kernel tuning guides

[Fraser Campbell]

On Mon, 2005-25-07 at 11:27 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> > I did find a few books in Chapters (Square One) and early reading is
> > promising:
> > 
> > - Performance Tuning for Linux Servers (IBM Press)
> > - Optimizing Linux Performance (HP)
> > 
> > The HP book is focused a lot on monitoring tools (vmstat, iostat,
> > mpstat, sar, ps, top, cachegrind, etc.) and how to pinpoint
> application
> > bottlenecks.  The IBM book gets more into kernel specific tuning
> > options.  Both books appear to have decent case studies.
> 
> I wonder if either applies to 2.6 or only to older kernels?

I've only been reading the IBM one so far, it talks 2.6 and 2.4 but more
emphasis on 2.6 I would say (first printing May 2005 after all).

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