Analyzing Computer System Performance with Perl::PDQ

• Main Author: Gunther, Neil J. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer system failures.; Software engineering.; Operating systems (Computers).; Management information systems.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering.; System Performance and Evaluation.; Operating Systems.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.

Analyzing computer system performance is often regarded by most system administrators, IT professionals and software engineers as a black art that is too time consuming to learn and apply. Finally, this book by acclaimed performance analyst Dr. Neil Gunther makes this subject understandable and appl...

Table of Contents:

• Theory of System Performance Analysis
• Time—The Zeroth Performance Metric
• Getting the Jump on Queueing
• Queueing Systems for Computer Systems
• Linux Load Average—Take a Load Off!
• Performance Bounds and Log Jams
• Practice of System Performance Analysis
• Pretty Damn Quick (PDQ)—A Slow Introduction
• Multicomputer Analysis with PDQ
• How to Scale an Elephant with PDQ
• Client/Server Analysis with PDQ
• Web Application Analysis with PDQ.