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3.4.2. Useful Websites

http://linuxperf.nl.linux.org/   The Linux Performance Tuning homepage. Provides a good in 

troductory overview of resource monitoring for performance tuning purposes. The mailing list,

unfortunately, appears to have been overrun by spam and is no longer used.

http://people.redhat.com/alikins/system_tuning.html   System Tuning Info for Linux Servers. A

stream of consciousness approach to performance tuning and resource monitoring for servers.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2396   Performance Monitoring Tools for Linux.

This Linux Journal page is geared more toward the administrator interested in writing a customized

performance graphing solution. Written several years ago, some of the details may no longer apply,

but the overall concept and execution are sound.

3.4.3. Related Books

The following books discuss various issues related to resource monitoring, and are good resources for

Red Hat Linux system administrators:

The Red Hat Linux Customization Guide; Red Hat, Inc.   Includes a chapter on many of the

resource monitoring tools described here.

Linux Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning by Jason R. Fink and Matthew D. Sherer; Sams

  Provides more in depth overviews of the resource monitoring tools presented here, and includes

others that might be appropriate for more specific resource monitoring needs.

Linux Administration Handbook by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, and Trent R. Hein; Prentice Hall

  Provides a short chapter similar in scope to this book, but includes an interesting section on

diagnosing a system that has suddenly slowed down.

Linux System Administration: A User's Guide by Marcel Gagne; Addison Wesley Professional  

Contains a small chapter on performance monitoring and tuning.