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With Sun claiming 35% of the workstation market, a vast audience awaits this guide to mastering performance management, fine-tuning, and capacity management of Sun's latest Solaris 2.x for both new and seasoned Solaris System administrators. Guidelines are provided for all aspects of proactive capacity planning. Practical examples accompanied by extensive figures and tables provide insights into queuing model theory, performance metrics, and performance optimization with Solaris 2.x. From the Back Cover
Optimize performance, maximize value, and anticipate growth. One hundred and forty thousands 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 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. 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 Solarix 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 to system tuning every administrator needs. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Frank Cervone is the Assistant Director for Systems at the DePaul University Libraries in Chicago, where he supervises a heterogenous network of Solaris (SPARC and Intel Based), Windows NT, and Novell Netware servers. He is the author of VSE/ESA JCL: Utilities, POWER and VSAM, and ALX/6000 System Guide, both published by McGraw-Hill.
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