Authors: Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro Brendan Gregg
Pages: 444
Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
ISBN13: 9780131568198
Solaris™ Performance and Tools provides comprehensive coverage of the powerful utilities bundled with Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris, including the Solaris Dynamic Tracing facility, DTrace, and the Modular Debugger, MDB. It provides a systematic approach to understanding performance and behavior, including:
* Analyzing CPU utilization by the kernel and applications, including reading and understanding hardware counters
* Process-level resource usage and profiling
* Disk IO behavior and analysis
* Memory usage at the system and application level
* Network performance
* Monitoring and profiling the kernel, and gathering kernel statistics
* Using DTrace providers and aggregations
* MDB commands and a complete MDB tutorial
The Solaris™ Internals volumes make a superb reference for anyone using Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris.