A List of performance and related books that I have actually read.

Performance

• Every Computer Performance Book
  • Great overview of the fundamentals of computer systems performance.
  • Amazon
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• Storage Network Performance Analysis
  • A practical guide to performance analysis for storage
  • Amazon
• Sun Performance and Tuning
  • The book that started it all for me
  • Amazon
• Deep C Secrets
  • Understanding how “C” code is executed is critical to performance analysis
  • Amazon

Computer Architecture

• In Search of clusters
  • Not a performance book per-se but well written on topic of clusters
  • Amazon
• Computer Architecture – A Quantitative approach
  • CS4 Course text c.1994
  • Amazon
• Modern Operating Systems – Tannenbaum
  •  Possibly the best OS book ever.
  • Amazon
• Panic – Crash Dump Analysis
  • Understanding how code executes in the system is critical.
  • Amazon

Tools

• gnuplot in action
  • Why I like it.  The section on “graphical data exploration” is worth the admission price alone.
  • Amazon