Book description
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“As practical as a Swiss Army knife for a power-hungry SysAdmin. For all the Sun gurus, veterans and newbies: This is for you. As a must-have in one's library, it'll be one of your most worn out references in your serious IT career. It is practical and very illustrative in its approach to solving sample problems.” —Dexter D. Laggui
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:
Performance Management and Measurement
TCP and Internet Server Tuning
JAVA Network Computer Server Sizing
SPARC System Architectures
Kernel Algorithms and Tuning
How to Build Your Own Performance Tools
Performance Rules and the virtual_adrian SE Tool
To get up to speed quickly on critical performance issues, this is the one book any Sun administrator, integrator or developer needs.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Quick Tips and Recipes
- Performance Management
- Performance Measurement
- Internet Servers
- Java Application Servers
- Source Code Optimization
- Applications
- Disks
- Networks
- Processors
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System Architectures
- SPARC Architecture and Implementation
- Register Windows and Different SPARC CPUs
- Identifying Different SPARC CPUs
- SPARC CPU Cache Architectures
- I/O Caches
- Block Copy Support
- Memory Management Unit Designs
- Early SPARC System Architectures
- SuperSPARC-Based Multiprocessor Hardware
- Bus Architectures Overview
- SuperSPARC XDBus Server Architecture
- SuperSPARC Server Architectural Overview
- UltraSPARC Interconnect Architectures
- UltraSPARC System Implementations
- Caches
- RAM and Virtual Memory
- Kernel Algorithms and Tuning
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Metric Collection Interfaces
- Standards and Implementations
- Solaris 2 Native Metric Interfaces
- The Traditional Kernel Memory Interface
- The Solaris 2 “kstat” Interface
- Network Protocol (MIB) Statistics via Streams
- The Network Device Driver Interface
- Process Data Sources
- The TNF Kernel Trace Probes
- The RPC Remote Statistics Daemon and perfmeter
- System Configuration Information
- The SymbEL Example Tools
- The SymbEL Language
- Tunables Quick Reference
- References
Product information
- Title: Sun Performance and Tuning: Java™ and the Internet, Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 1998
- Publisher(s): Pearson
- ISBN: 0130952494
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