Skip to Main Content
Performance Tuning for Linux® Servers
book

Performance Tuning for Linux® Servers

by Sandra K. Johnson, Gerrit Huizenga, Badari Pulavarty
May 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
13h 46m
English
IBM Press
Content preview from Performance Tuning for Linux® Servers

Chapter Fourteen. Code Tuning

By Edward G. Bradford and Mark Brown

Introduction

Although an understanding of the methods of tuning the operating system is needed to optimize system workload and response, an equally important aspect of performance tuning is the actual work done in the application code to maximize performance— particularly for applications that are the sole purpose of a dedicated system. Applications such as web servers, database servers, or mail servers tend to be the primary application for a system, and performance hinges just as much on the application as it does on the operating system.

This chapter addresses some of the issues of writing a program that will run efficiently. We assume performance tuning of the underlying operating ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Optimizing Linux® Performance: A Hands-On Guide to Linux® Performance Tools

Optimizing Linux® Performance: A Hands-On Guide to Linux® Performance Tools

Phillip G. Ezolt

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 013144753XPurchase book