Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 - INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

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Chapter 4. Physical and Virtual Memory 57performance graphing solution. Written several years ago, some of the details may no longer apply,but the overall concept and execution are sound.4.7.3. Related BooksThe following books discuss various issues related to resource monitoring, and are good resources forRed Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators:• The Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administration Guide; Red Hat, Inc. — Includes a chapteron 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 includesothers that might be appropriate for more specific resource monitoring needs.• Red Hat Linux Security and Optimization by Mohammed J. Kabir; Red Hat Press — Approximatelythe first 150 pages of this book discuss performance-related issues. This includes chapters dedicatedto 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 ondiagnosing 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 — Thechapter on managing system resources contains good overall information, with some Linuxspecifics included.• System Performance Tuning (2nd Edition) by Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and Mike Loukides;O’Reilly & Associates — Although heavily oriented toward more traditional UNIXimplementations, there are many Linux-specific references throughout the book.