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About the Wiki

The Solaris Performance Wiki is a community to provide a go-to reference for the key information related to Solaris Performance. Here we aim to provide a top level index to the essential performance information, by either linking to existing references (blogs etc...) and providing original documentation where necessary. Please update the WishList with items you want to see on the Wiki.

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Analyzing Interrupt Activity with DTrace (The Good, the Blog & the Ugly - Tim Cook's Weblog)

(Tue January 3 2012) This article is about interrupt analysis using DTrace. It is also available on the Solaris Internals and Performance FAQ Wiki, as part of the DTrace Topics collection. Interrupt Analysis Interr...

Still Writing (The Wall)

(Sat December 31 2011) I haven't posted here in a few years, but I have been busy writing material, particularly for:The DTrace book: which has over 1,000 pages, much of it new content. This ate over a year of my spare tim...

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Discussions about these Solaris Performance topics are held via the OpenSolaris Web Site.

• OpenSolaris Performance Community
• OpenSolaris Observability Community
• OpenSolaris DTrace Community
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Organization

The Solaris Performance Wiki is organized into the following categories:

• Key Solaris Performance Communities
• Systems Performance Tools and Tuneables
  • Performance Tool List
  • CPU Utilization and Load
  • Processes
  • Java
  • Memory
  • Disks
  • File Systems
  • Networks
  • Microprocessor Hardware and Counters
  • Kernel Monitoring
• DTrace Topics
• Chip Level Multiprocessing
• Application Code Optimization
• Solaris Performance Features by Release/Version
• Virtualization Performance
• Application Specific Tuning
• Hardware/Platform Specific Tuning
• Benchmarking, Tools and Workloads
• Assignments and Mini-projects