Sun Performance and Tuning: Sparc & Solaris [Paperback]

Adrian Cockcroft (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1994

Focusing exclusively on SPARC hardware and UNIX, this tutorial and reference on Sun Performance tuning contains hard recommendations and expert opinions. It discusses and compares all of Sun's operating system releases, from SunOS 4.1 through to Solaris 2.4. It covers topics such as performance measurement, source code, executable, databases and configurable systems, kernel, memory, disk, CPU, multiprocessors and network.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This comprehensive exploration of Sun performance and tuning contains the kind of hard recommendations and opinions that are often needed, but which are not normally found in the formal documentation. This tutorial and reference focuses exclusively on SPARC hardware and Unix and discusses and compares all of Sun's operating system releases, from SunOS 4.1 through to Solaris 2.4. It features up-to-date Sun-specific information (e.g., using optimizing compilers), and other aspects of performance tuning (e.g., virtual memory paging algorithms).

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2nd edition (October 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131496425
• ISBN-13: 978-0131496422
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,743,897 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #55 in Books > Computers & Technology > Operating Systems > Solaris

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best performance tuning reference around for Solaris, November 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Sun Performance and Tuning: Sparc & Solaris (Paperback)

Great book. I can't say enough good things about Adrian's work. This book has lots of useful information on improving performance on Solaris machines. Really good information on tuning the tcp/ip stack, however, I wish there had been more of it. If you're looking to tune Solaris, this one is a must have.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As practical as a swiss-knife for a power-hungry SysAdmin., March 20, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Sun Performance and Tuning: Sparc & Solaris (Paperback)

For all the Sun gurus, veterans and newbies: this is for you. As a must-have in one's library, it'll be one of your most worn out references in your serious IT career. It is practical and very illustrative in its approach to solving sample problems.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, November 30, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Sun Performance and Tuning: Sparc & Solaris (Paperback)

I'd recommend this book to any Solaris Systems Administrator/Benchmark Engineer who deals with Performance Monitoring and tuning at this job. The book goes in great technical detail about the various parameters. It is a little old (was published in 1994 when Solaris was still in 2.3) but it helps in understanding Solaris internals from a systems professional standpoint.