Solaris Performance Administration: Performance Measurement, Fine Tuning, and Capacity Planning for Releases 2.5.1 and 2.6 [Paperback]

H. Frank Cervone (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 9, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0070117683 | ISBN-13: 978-0070117686

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.

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The all-in-one guide to system tuning every administrator needs!

One hundred and forty thousand workstations--and growing fast! That's Sun's 35% share of the workstation market. And if it's your job to administer, plan, or develop applications for a network running Solaris 2.x, this indispensable guidebook is just what you need. 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 information species to Solaris 2.5.1 and 2.6.

You get all the information you need on tools and methods including:

• Accounting data reduction programs
• Software monitoring
• Program optimization
• Hardware monitoring
• Benchmarking
• Modeling

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.

If you want to derive maximum value from Solaris 2.x...avoid bottlenecks, glitches, and down time...make accurate predictions of capacity needs...and direct timely, well-managed transitions, you want this book. It's the all-in-one guide and memory management--all with the benefit of tried-and tested Solaris 2.x experience.

About the Author

The J. Ranade Workstation Series is McGraw-Hill's primary vehicle for providing workstation professionals with timely concepts, solutions, and applications. Jay Ranade is also Series Editor in Chief of more than 150 books in the J. Ranade IBM and DEC Series, and Series Advisor to the McGraw-Hill Series on Computer Communications.

Jay Ranade, Series Editor in Chief and best-selling computer author, is a consultant and Assistant V.P. at Merrill Lynch.

Product Details

• Paperback: 346 pages
• Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill (Tx) (April 9, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070117683
• ISBN-13: 978-0070117686
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,806,794 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Performance is not what this book has., September 18, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Solaris Performance Administration: Performance Measurement, Fine Tuning, and Capacity Planning for Releases 2.5.1 and 2.6 (Paperback)

The book presents information about various performance measurement tools, but lacks the depth to explain things in detail. The author mostly presents what the man pages describes, but does not go into any detail as to what to look for or how to go about tuning the system, all is left up to the reader to figure it out.

The book is probably good for a beginner, but not for the seasoned professional who requires a more detailed approach to Solaris capacity planning and performance measurements.

If you really want a good book on performance and tuning, I suggest one to look elsewhere; books such as System Performance Tuning (by O'Reilly & Associates), and Sun Performance and Tuning (by Adrian Cockcroft) will meet the the serious Sys Admin needs.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice supplement for those responsible for system P&T., July 27, 1998

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Michael Lance ([e-mail]) (San Rafeal, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Solaris Performance Administration: Performance Measurement, Fine Tuning, and Capacity Planning for Releases 2.5.1 and 2.6 (Paperback)

Very good theoretical overview of Solaris as it pertains to performance and tuning (P&T). Light on the emperical side, but thorough coverage of Solaris stats tools...covers what the man pages miss! High level coverage of capacity planning, mostly from a planning point of view; would still consider Brian Wong's book the authority in that subject. Nice adjunct for P&T's knowledge building for beginning administrators.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great introduction to the topic, October 25, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Solaris Performance Administration: Performance Measurement, Fine Tuning, and Capacity Planning for Releases 2.5.1 and 2.6 (Paperback)

This book provides a good introduction to the topics as related to the Solaris operating system. It also includes information about topics not addressed in the regular Sun documentation, such as new daemons for DNS caching. Highly recommended.