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Richard McDougall

Richard McDougall is a Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer who specializes in Operating Systems technology and system performance. He is based at the Menlo Park Performance and Availability Engineering group, where he drives development of performance and behavior enhancements to the Solaris Operating system and Sun's hardware architectures. He has led the development of resource management principles, contributed to the development of virtual memory and file systems within the Solaris operating system, and has architected many tools for analysis, monitoring and capacity planning. Richard can be contacted at Richard.McDougall@Sun.COM

Richard is the co-author of "Solaris Internals", and the lead author for "Resource Management" (Prentice Hall/Sun Blueprints). He has written numerous articles and papers on measurement, monitoring and capacity planning of Solaris systems, and frequently speaks at industry and customer technical conferences on the topics of system performance and resource management.

Jim Mauro

JIM MAURO has 20 years of industry experience with UNIX systems. Jim is a senior engineer in the Performance Applications Engineering group at Sun Microsystems. When Jim is not wrestling with his two sons, his house, or his yard, he works on systems and applications availability and resource management-related projects for Sun. Jim can be contacted at James.Mauro@Sun.COM.