4.7.3. Related Books

The System Administrators 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.

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.