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Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro, Brendan Gregg, Solaris(TM) Performance and Tools: DTrace and MDB Techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris
Prentice Hall PTR | ISBN 0131568191 | CHM | 2006 | 496 pages | 1,55 MB

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

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“Solaris Internals” and its predecessor “Sun Performance and Tuning” are wonderful books for giving you the knowledge to know whats actually happening under the covers, but many SA’s admit struggling when it comes to translating that into usable day-to-day understanding of the systems on which they manage. Just knowing how it works isn’t enough to be really useful, what you need is the ability to look at the system and work out how what your seeing fits what you know.

“Solaris Performance and Tools” bridges that gap. Every page, cover-to-cover is filled with practical examples and explanations of the tools that let you actually see what Solaris is doing. If you’ve tended to rely on only a handful of tools such as vmstat, iostat, netstat, sar, and prstat, then you really want to get this book and start digging much deeper. Even as a Sr Admin I found that there were wonderful tools available that I didn’t even know existed (such as “intrstat”).

In particular, this book unlocks two powerful tools in Solaris 10 that can be as complex as they are powerful: DTrace and mdb. Both of these give you unparalleled power to dig your fingers into the system, but using them beyond simple one liners is more difficult than most people admin. This book gives you a great step-by-step approach to learning both. While a one-line DTrace script found in a blog might help you here and there, you won’t truly understand how powerful DTrace can be untill you’ve built
a firm foundation on which to build your own. This book is the best way to jump start that process.

This truly is the only book available that opens the window to whats possible in Solaris in such a practical way. You’ll find things you didn’t know, you’ll start understanding how things work by putting practical numbers on YOUR system together with the knowledge you aquired from “Solaris Internals” and you’ll start solving problems rathan than just knowing why somethings broken or slow.

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