A picture says more than a thousand words! Have a look at the picture below. The pictures nicely documents what scalability on a large SMP systems means.[Read More]
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If I consider the gain in latency that an SSD brings versus a capacity disk - in the region of 100x
- the solution seems obvious. Swapping must be much faster with an SSD. Since RAM is expensive versus
SSD, I could even be tempted to design a system with little
RAM and a large swap space on SSDs. In other words, I can ask
myself if trying to prevent my system to page is still a good fight?[Read More]
Take advantage of some free technical Webinars conducted by Sun's experts.[Read More]
Jeff Victor has published zonestat as an OpenSolaris.org project. It's allows to monitor resources at a zone level including limits (caps). zonestat is a very useful utility for users who deal with zone based virtualisation. Details are covered in the Solaris Performance Primer,
[Read More]As posted before: perfbar 1.2 is now final. Read the previous entry to get perfbar 1.2. Key features:
- layout optimized for CMT servers
- more command options
- improved rendering performance
- Available for Sparc and x86 with Solaris
Installing the AMP stack on Solaris is a piece of cake. Following this step by step description to get your AMP stack running in 5 minutes.[Read More]
Perfbar 1.2 is a very valuable visual tool which allows to detect bottle necks on massive parallel SMP servers like the T5000 class of servers.[Read More]
The new ZFS write throttle
feature, which integrated in Nevada build 87, specifically addresses
write intensive workloads. Today, we take a closer look at the write
throttle in action...[Read More]
Become a professional presenter using StarOffice 9 and the Sun Presenter Console. Available for Windows, MacOS, Linux and Solaris for free![Read More]
Optimizing application performance is a multi-facet undertaking. Among
all the tools and methods available to us, getting a glimpse at
performance metrics from the processor point of view allows us to
highlight yet another facet of the application. Most modern
microprocessors include so-called performance counters that provide
event based drill-down of the processor utilisation and efficiency...[Read More]
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