"Performance Tuning for Linux Severs" published by IBM Press

Please find attached a new book announcement for the title: "Performance
Tuning for Linux Servers", edited by Johnson/Huizenga/Pulavarty.
 
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Media Contact:
Heather Fox
C/o IBM Press 
heather.fox@pearsoned.com 							
201.236.7139 (phone)
						
IBM PRESS[TM] ANNOUNCES PUBLICATION OF: 
Performance Tuning for Linux Servers

EDITED by Three Linux Performance Experts, with Chapter Contributions from 21 Linux Practitioners 

Upper Saddle River, NJ,  (June, 2005) - IBM Press[TM], the official publisher of IBM books for
professionals and students, is pleased to announce publication of the new book, Performance Tuning
for Linux Servers-- edited by three Linux performance experts, with chapters contributed by 21
practitioners in the field-- to provide readers with the basic knowledge and skills needed to
understand and improve the performance of Linux servers.

The book provides readers with the methods and techniques to maximize end-to-end performance of
Linux-based applications and databases, including how to find bottlenecks, measure performance, and
identify effective optimizations. 

IBM Press is a publishing partnership between IBM Corp. and Pearson Education.
Book Organization: 

The book contains 520 pages, organized into 22 chapters and five major parts, which include: 

Part I: "Linux Overview": Provides an overview of Linux installation, the Linux kernel and server
architectures;
Part II: "Performance Analysis Tools": Provides a review of performance tools in three areas:
system performance and monitoring, system trace, and benchmarking; 
Part III: "System Tuning": Discusses performance tuning principles and strategy, in addition to
scheduler, memory, I/O, file system, and network and code tuning;
Part IV: "Performance Characterization of Linux Server Applications":  Describes the performance
characteristics of server applications, touching on factors that may affect their performance.
[Includes discussion of web, file, database, and application servers.]
Part V: "Tuning Case Studies": Provides examples of how to integrate work in the previous sections
to attempt a tuning project with different scenarios. [Included are case studies on scheduling,
I/O, file system and network and commercial workload tuning.]

The book closes with an "Appendix A" that discusses kernel tunable parameters and how to use the
sysctl,/proc, and sysfs interfaces for Linux kernel tuning.

Early Reader Review:
"If you're responsible for Linux servers and you need to keep things running at peak efficiency,
you *need* to get this book...This is one of those rare books that ranks high on many criteria...
It's got a lot of theory, the "why" of different features as they relate to performance. It's also
packed full of practical material. Bottom line... If you run a Linux system and you are responsible
for making sure it performs, this is the book you need to have."-- Thomas Duff, Duffbert's Random
Musings blog: http://www.twduff.com   

Author Bio Info:
Sandra K. Johnson, Ph.D., is a Senior Technical Staff Member and the Chief Technology Officer of
Global Small and Medium Business, IBM Systems and Technology Group. She was formerly the Linux
Performance Architect with the IBM Linux Technology Center in Austin, Texas. She has more than
sixteen years of experience in designing and evaluating the performance of operating systems and
applications. Johnson is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology.
Gerrit Huizenga is a software engineer and architect for Linux Base Technologies in the IBM Linux
Technology Center in Beaverton, Oregon. Gerrit has been architecting, designing, and implementing
operating system capabilities with a focus on performance, scalability, standards, and security for
twenty years. Prior to his work at the IBM Linux Technology Center, Gerrit was the Chief
Technologist for Operating Systems at Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
Badari Pulavarty is a senior engineer at the IBM Linux Technology Center in Beaverton, Oregon. He
has fifteen years of experience developing UNIX operating systems.

The book will be available through major chain and independent booksellers nationwide and through
online vendors at a suggested retail price of US $54.99. To learn more about the book, visit
http://www.phptr.com/title/013144753x or contact IBM Press Publicist Heather Fox at 201-236-7139 or
email: heather.fox@pearsoned.com.

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