Tuning & Performance of SunOS Systems : Agenda

• Introduction
  • What is performance?
  • How fast is fast?
  • What makes the performance difference?
  • Analysis tools

• Application Performance and Tuning
  • Programming issues
  • Language issues
  • Database issues

• I/O Performance and Tuning
  • The cost of I/O
  • Finding bottlenecks
  • maximizing disk performance

• Network Performance and Tuning
  • Throughput versus Utilization
  • Ethernet and the Alternatives
  • Analysis and Tuning

• Memory Performance and Tuning
  • Virtual Memory
  • Life Cycle of a page
  • Using vmstat and sar to monitor memory
  • Tuning rules

• CPU Performance and Tuning
  • The Cache
  • Working with multiprocessors
  • Using vmstat and sar to monitor the CPU
  • Tuning rules

• Kernel performance and tuning
  • What is worth tuning?
  • Using vmstat and sar to monitor the kernel
  • Tuning Solaris

• Alternative tools