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4 commands that help you find bottlenecks

My Favorite Oracle Solaris Performance Analysis Commands

Obsolete | In Solaris
| 16 minute read

A while ago, we discussed some performance analysis basics:

  • Define what your problem is.

  • Figure out your goal: What metric needs to be in what ballpark for you to declare victory?

  • Analyze your system from the inside out: CPU, RAM, Disk, Network. Your Bottleneck is always in one of these 4 regions.

So what are the best commands for finding bottlenecks in each of the four categories above? Here’s part two of my Oracle Solaris Performance cheat sheet with some favorite tricks.

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Top 11 Things You Can Do Now to Prepare for Oracle Solaris 11

Obsolete | In Solaris
| 7 minute read

Oracle Solaris 11 is the future of enterprise IT, that is now clear.

Still, we need to wait a year until it is officially released. What can we do now? Well, quite a lot, it turns out. Even if the preview version (due later this year) hasn’t been relased yet, there are a lot of things you can do to prepare for the big OS upgrade.

Here’s a list of 11 things you can do now to start enjoying the benefits of Solaris 11, get ahead of your system peers and be a part of the future of Solaris now!