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title
Systems Performance
type
book
summary
Gregg's Linux performance methodology — USE method, flame graphs, eBPF tracing tools
author
Brendan Gregg
year
2020
url
https://www.brendangregg.com/sysperfbook.html
cohort
https://eatonphil.com/2024-systems-performance.html
tags
performance, linux, observability
status
want-to-read
sources
eatonphil-bookclub
created
2026-05-12
updated
2026-05-12

Brendan Gregg's catalog (2nd ed. 2020) of Linux performance methodology: USE method, RED method, on-CPU vs off-CPU flame graphs, eBPF-based tracers, the whole BCC/bpftrace toolbox. Reference rather than narrative — but a reference that defines the working vocabulary for any post-2015 performance investigation. Read by the eatonphil-bookclub in 2024: cohort page.

Related concepts: ebpf-sock-ops, spinlock, linux-preemption-models.

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