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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.

News

VMware acquires Cetas Software for Cloud and Big Data Analytics (VMware Communities : All Content - Cloud Applications Architecture)

(Tue April 24 2012)  At the beginning of the year, I posted that we are in the midst of a data renaissance  -- where a rapid proliferation of new uses of data is driving new technologies to manage data. The tra...

How the SPARC T4 Processor Optimizes Throughput Capacity: A Case Study (Ruud's blog)

(Mon April 9 2012) This white paper demonstrates the architected latency hiding features of Oracle?s UltraSPARC T2+ and SPARC T4 processors That is the first sentence from this technical white paper, but what does i...

Forums

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

• OpenSolaris Performance Community
• OpenSolaris Observability Community
• OpenSolaris DTrace Community
• OpenSolaris ZFS Community

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