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An Expert Guide to Software Performance Optimization From mobile and cloud apps to video games to driverless vehicle control, more and more software is time-constrained: It must deliver reliable results seamlessly, consistently, and virtually instantaneously. If it doesn't, customers are unhappy--and sometimes lives are put at risk. When complex software underperforms or fails, software engineers need to identify and address the root causes. This is difficult and, historically, few tools have been available to help. In Understanding Software Dynamics, performance expert Richard L. Sites tackles the problem head on, offering expert methods and advanced tools for understanding complex, time-constrained software dynamics, improving reliability and troubleshooting challenging performance problems. Sites draws on several decades of experience pioneering software performance optimization, as well as extensive experience teaching graduate-level developers. He introduces principles and techniques for use in any environment, from embedded devices to datacenters, illuminating them with examples based on x86 or ARM processors running Linux and linked by Ethernet. He also guides readers through building and applying a powerful, new, extremely low-overhead open-source software tool, KUtrace, to precisely trace executions on every CPU core. Using insights gleaned from this tool, readers can apply nuanced solutions--not merely brute-force techniques such as turning off caches or cores. Measure and address issues associated with CPUs, memory, disk/SSD, networks, and their interactions Fix programs that are always too slow, and those that sometimes lag for no apparent reason Design useful observability, logging, and time-stamping capabilities into your code Reason more effectively about performance data to see why reality differs from expectations Identify problems such as excess execution, slow instruction execution, waiting for resources, and software locks Understanding Software Dynamics will be valuable to experienced software professionals, including application and OS developers, hardware and system architects, real-time system designers, and game developers, as well as advanced students. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

Table of Contents:
Foreword xix Preface xxi Acknowledgments xxv About the Author xxvii Part I: Measurement 1 Chapter 1: My Program Is Too Slow 3 Chapter 2: Measuring CPUs 15 Chapter 3: Measuring Memory 31 Chapter 4: CPU and Memory Interaction 49 Chapter 5: Measuring Disk/SSD 61 Chapter 6: Measuring Networks 85 Chapter 7: Disk and Network Database Interaction 111 Part II: Observation 131 Chapter 8: Logging 133 Chapter 9: Aggregate Measures 141 Chapter 10: Dashboards 157 Chapter 11: Other Existing Tools 167 Chapter 12: Traces 193 Chapter 13: Observation Tool Design Principles 209 Part III: Kernel-User Trace 217 Chapter 14: KUtrace: Goals, Design, Implementation 219 Chapter 15: KUtrace: Linux Kernel Patches 227 Chapter 16: KUtrace: Linux Loadable Module 239 Chapter 17: KUtrace: User-Mode Runtime Control 245 Chapter 18: KUtrace: Postprocessing 249 Chapter 19: KUtrace: Display of Software Dynamics 257 Part IV: Reasoning 267 Chapter 20: What to Look For 269 Chapter 21: Executing Too Much 271 Chapter 22: Executing Slowly 279 Chapter 23: Waiting for CPU 289 Chapter 24: Waiting for Memory 299 Chapter 25: Waiting for Disk 307 Chapter 26: Waiting for Network 319 Chapter 27: Waiting for Locks 337 Chapter 28: Waiting for Time 357 Chapter 29: Waiting for Queues 361 Chapter 30: Recap 383 Appendix A: Sample Servers 387 Appendix B: Trace Entries 391 Glossary 397 References 405 Index 415


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780137589746
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Addison Wesley
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0137589743
  • Publisher Date: 26 Feb 2022
  • Binding: Digital download
  • No of Pages: 464


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