Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1998, 587 pages
ISBN: 0-13-095249-4
Keywords: System Administration
Hailed in its first edition as an indispensable reference for system administrators, Sun Performance and Tuning has been revised and expanded to cover Solaris 2.6, the newest generation of SPARC hardware, and the latest Internet and Java server technologies.
Featuring a quick guide to get you started, as well as detailed reference information, this book is indispensable both for developers who need to design for speed and administrators who need to manage system and network performance.
Performance guru Adrian Cockcroft brings his unique expertise and structured approach to this complex and rapidly changing topic, providing detailed information on key aspects of performance management and system behavior that is not available anywhere else. Rich Pettit, author of the SE performance toolkit, describes the performance interfaces in Solaris and how to use this freely available toolkit to build your own customized performance-monitoring tools.
Key topics covered include:
To get up to speed quickly on critical performance issues, this is the one book any Sun administrator, integrator or developer needs.
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misconceptionssar
snoop
Sequencepercollator.se
truss
sotruss
iostat
iostat
Used the Underlying Disk Measurementsnfsstat
Commandnetstat
Commandpsrinfo
, psradm
, and psrset
vmstat
and mpstat
Outputvmstat
Dataprtdiag
to Show the Configurationvmstat
Output Walk-through/etc/system
to modify Kernel Variables in Solaris 2maxusers
maxusers
and Pseudo-ttys in Solaris 2maxusers
in Solaris 2.3 Through Solaris 2.6kstat
" Interfaceperfmeter
prtconf
and prtdiag
virtual_adrian.se
Performance Tuner And Monitorkvm
Libraryswitch
Statementkvm
Language Classkstat
Language Classmib
Language Classndd
Language Classkvm
Variables and Functionsattach
Block to Call Interpreter FunctionsIt's an OK book on tuning Sun/Solaris systems. Soe of it may be reused, as it is pretty generic, but the majority is nerdy Sun stuff, that could explain the fall of the Sun Empire.
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