The 2nd Edition is done!

Jim, I and Brendan Gregg submitted two completed books to the publisher on Tuesday April 11, 2006. You may notice two easter eggs here; first there are now TWO books, and there is another primary author in the fold - Brendan Gregg.

The first of the two books is an update to Solaris Internals, for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris. It covers Virtual Memory, File systems, Zones, Resource Management, Process Rights etc (all the good stuff in S10). This book is about 1100 pages.

The second book is aimed at Administrators to learn about performance and debugging. It's basically the book to read to understand and learn DTrace, MDB and the Solaris Performance tools, and a methodology for performance observability and debugging. This book is about 550 pages.

The TOCs for the books are as follows:

Solaris Internals, 2nd Edition

Solaris Internals, Performance and Debugging

Virtual Memory

• Solaris 8 mdb ::memstat plugin
• C source for pmap "maps" example
• Perl souce for prtmem.pl example