Sun Performance and Tuning: Java™ and the Internet, Second Edition

Preface

This book consists of everything I have learned over the years about performance and tuning. It includes a structured approach, opinions, heuristics, and references. It contains documentation of the behavior of systems, with recommendations that are often needed but that are rarely available. I cover all of the Solaris™ operating system releases up to Solaris 2.6, and major Sun® products up to the beginning of 1998.

This second edition of Sun Performance And Tuning has doubled in size, and almost all the content is new. I have been writing a monthly performance question and answer column for SunWorld Online magazine at http://www.sun.com/sunworldonline, and many of those columns have been updated and incorporated into this book. You should ...