Solaris™ Performance and Tools provides comprehensive coverage of the powerful utilities bundled with Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris, including the Solaris Dynamic Tracing facility, DTrace, and the Modular Debugger, MDB. It provides a systematic approach to understanding performance and behavior, including:

* Analyzing CPU utilization by the kernel and applications, including reading and understanding hardware counters

* Process-level resource usage and profiling

* Disk IO behavior and analysis

* Memory usage at the system and application level

* Network performance

* Monitoring and profiling the kernel, and gathering kernel statistics

* Using DTrace providers and aggregations

* MDB commands and a complete MDB tutorial

The Solaris™ Internals volumes make a superb reference for anyone using Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris.