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Linux Performance Analysis: New Tools and Old Secrets
Brendan Gregg, Netflix
At Netflix, performance is crucial and we use many high to low level tools to analyze our stack in different ways. In this talk, I will introduce new system observability tools we are using at Netflix, which I've ported from my DTraceToolkit, and are intended for our Linux 3.2 cloud instances. These show that Linux can do more than you may think, by using creative hacks and workarounds with existing kernel features (ftrace, perf_events). While these are solving issues on current versions of Linux, I'll also briefly summarize the future in this space: eBPF, ktap, SystemTap, sysdig, etc.
Brendan Gregg, Netflix
Brendan Gregg is a senior performance architect at Netflix, where he does large scale computer performance design, analysis, and tuning. He is the author of the book "Systems Performance", and recipient of the USENIX 2013 LISA Award for Outstanding Achievement in System Administration. Previously a performance and kernel engineer, his recent work includes developing visualizations and methodologies for performance analysis, and tools which are included in multiple operating systems.
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author = {Brendan Gregg},
title = {Linux Performance Analysis: New Tools and Old Secrets},
year = {2014},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}
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