Customer Reviews

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

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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.

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.

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.

Contains tons of useful tips and in-depth and thorough information. I specially liked the chapters on kernel, memory, processes & threads management. This book gave me a better understanding of the OS structure. Kudos to the author !!!

Does anyone edit anymore? Typos abound and even appear in examples of parameter setting. I realize there is value in "speed to market", but in this day and age, simple proofreading should be mandatory.