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Red Hat Linux Security and Optimization by Mohammed J. Kabir; Red Hat Press   Approximately

the first 150 pages of this book discuss performance related issues. This includes chapters dedicated

to performance issues specific to network, Web, email, and file servers.

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.

Essential System Administration (3rd Edition) by Aeleen Frisch; O'Reilly & Associates   The

chapter on managing system resources contains good overall information, with some Linux

specifics included.

System Performance Tuning (2nd Edition) by Gian Paolo D. Musumeci and Mike Loukides;

O'Reilly & Associates   Although heavily oriented toward more traditional UNIX

implementations, there are many Linux specific references throughout the book.