[TriLUG-announce] Meeting January 14: Investigating and Addressing Performance Issues

[Matthew Frazier]

The date and time in this message is a typo - the meeting will be
Thursday, January 14, from 7:00 to 9:00 PM, following our usual second
Thursday convention.

Apologies,
Matthew Frazier
TriLUG PR Officer
https://www.trilug.org/

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015, at 15:55, Matthew Frazier wrote:
> Topic: Investigating and Addressing Performance Issues
> Presenter: William Cohen
> When: Wednesday, 23 December 2015 - 3:45pm
> Where: Bandwidth, Venture III, 900 Main Campus Dr, Raleigh, NC 27606
> Parking: Venture Center Deck, adjacent to Venture III
> (visitor spaces are unrestricted after 5pm)
> Map: http://osm.org/go/ZYRUokxgI--
> 
> Synopsis
> Rather than just accepting poor system performance, you can use the
> tools available in Linux to better understand the underlying causes of
> those issues and suggest ways of resolving them. This presentation will
> include:
> 
> - How to use tools such as the Linux kernel's perf tool to show what
> regions of code consume the most processor time.
> - How to identify areas of an application that most need to be
> optimized.
> - How modern processors work (just enough to better interpret
> performance data).
> - A demonstration of these tools running on a Dragonboard 410c
> <http://www.96boards.org/products/ce/dragonboard410c/>, an inexpensive
> aarch64 development board.
> 
> Bio
> William Cohen has been a developer of performance tools at Red Hat for
> the past decade. He has worked on numerous performance tools in Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux and Fedora, including OProfile, PAPI, SystemTap, and
> Dyninst.
> 
> Officer Nominations
> This meeting will include an election to replace resigning PR Officer
> Matthew Frazier on the TriLUG Steering Committee. Currently, Jeremy
> Davis is nominated. If you wish to nominate yourself, you can do so on
> the TriLUG mailing list until January 4, 2016.
> 
> See you there,
> Matthew Frazier
> TriLUG PR Officer
> http://www.trilug.org/
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