Monday April 03, 2006
Monday April 03, 2006 Performance, Observability, DTrace and MDB
Solaris Internals, 2nd Edition is finally done!
At 5:30am this morning, Jim, I and Brendan Gregg submitted two completed books to the publisher. You may notice two easter eggs here; first there are now TWO books, and there is another primary author in the fold - Brendan Gregg.
The first of the two books is an update to Solaris Internals, for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris. It covers Virtual Memory, File systems, Zones, Resource Management, Process Rights etc (all the good stuff in S10). This book is about 1100 pages.
The TOC for this book is here
The second book is aimed at Administrators to learn about performance and debugging. It's basically the book to read to understand and learn DTrace, MDB and the Solaris Performance tools, and a methodology for performance observability and debugging. This book is about 550 pages.
The TOC for this book is here
We need your help to name the two books. The current proposals are:
- Solaris Internals: Kernel Architecture for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris
- Solaris Performance and Tools: Performance Measurement and Debugging with DTrace and MDB
We would very much like to hear your thoughts on what you feel would be great titles and subtitles for the books.
We welcome and look forward to your thoughts on the titles!
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( Apr 03 2006, 03:42:43 PM PDT ) Permalink Comments [22]
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Posted by anjan bacchu on April 03, 2006 at 06:03 PM PDT #
Hi Richard. I'd suggest that if they're to be a pair, there should be some common component of the title. Something like
The trouble with that is that the "Internals" part of the name may discourage administrators. What about something like "Solaris Exposed"?
Posted by Boyd Adamson on April 03, 2006 at 06:32 PM PDT #
Posted by Ceri Davies on April 04, 2006 at 01:18 AM PDT #
Posted by Jim Mauro on April 04, 2006 at 05:14 AM PDT #
Hmm... Solaris Internals 1: xxx and Solaris Internals 2: yyy?
Posted by Boyd Adamson on April 04, 2006 at 07:43 AM PDT #
Posted by Prasad on April 04, 2006 at 07:55 AM PDT #
Posted by Bill Bradford on April 04, 2006 at 08:46 AM PDT #
I salute the effort and bravo to Brendan ! I was almost sure something should come after his paper on Solaris Metrics http://users.tpg.com.au/adsln4yb/Perf/solarismetrics.html
How about these names:
Solaris Internals Architecture (SIA)
Solaris Performance and Monitoring (SPM)
Much simpler and shorter names. What do you think ?
Posted by Stefan Parvu on April 04, 2006 at 12:15 PM PDT #
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Posted by Richard McDougall on April 13, 2006 at 11:05 AM PDT #
Posted by Alexandre Borges on April 13, 2006 at 03:51 PM PDT #
I had a subtle better idea for the books' names:
Solaris Internals:Kernel Architecture Solaris (Vol 1)
and
Solaris Internals: Performance Management (Vol 2)
I hope you appreciate. Simple and easy to remember.
Have a nice week.
Alexandre Borges
(Sun Microsystems Instructor - Sao Paulo - Brazil)
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