Solaris Performance Administration:Performance Measurement, Fine Tuning, and Cap

The most comprehensive, useful, and sophisticated reference on Solaris 2.x ever published, this book gives you polished, professional tools for tweaking peak performance from both software and hardware and staying on top of capacity needs. And, it's current, featuring information specific to Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.6. Useful to both Solaris newcomers and seasoned pros, this guide features important background theory on queuing models and performance metrics, essential to assessment. It's packed with command output and code samples, plus technical and strategic information on everything from kernel architecture to network configuration and memory management - all with the benefit of tried-and-tested Solaris 2.x experience.