April 1998
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
16h 11m
English
book
Sun Performance and Tuning: Java™ and the Internet, Second Edition
by Adrian Cockcroft, Richard Pettit
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Solaris 2.6 Performance Improvements
Solaris 2.6 is a different kind of release from Solaris 2.5 and Solaris 2.5.1. Those releases were tied to very important hardware launches: UltraSPARC support in Solaris 2.5 and Ultra Enterprise Server support in Solaris 2.5.1. With a hard deadline, you have to keep functionality improvements under control, so there were relatively few new features. Solaris 2.6 is not tied to any hardware launch; new systems released in early 1998 all run an updated version of 2.5.1 as well as Solaris 2.6. The current exception is the Enterprise 10000 (Starfire), which was not a Sun product early enough (Sun brought in the development team from Cray during 1996) to have Solaris 2.6 support at first release. During 1998, ...