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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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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