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A

access patterns
        random
        sequential

accounting
        use to monitor resources

active page list
        definition
        displaying pages on
        monitoring

adaptive RAID 3/5
        definition

AdvFS
        balancing volumes
        configuration recommendations
        consolidating I/O transfers
        decreasing AdvFS cache size
        decreasing I/O transfer read-ahead size
        decreasing metadata buffer cache size
        defragmenting file domain
        disabling dirty mmapped page flushing
        displaying extent map
        displaying extent map
        exercising
        features
        forcing synchronous writes
        improving BMT performance
        increasing AdvFS cache size
        increasing dirty data caching
        managing files with
        managing files with
        migrating files
        modifying device queue limits
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring tools
        moving transaction log
        moving transaction log
        preallocating BMT space
        sizing BMT
        striping files
        tuning recommendations
        tuning recommendations
        using multiple-volume domains
        using quotas

AdvfsAccessCleanupPercent attribute
        definition

AdvfsAccessMaxPercent attribute
        definition

AdvfsCacheMaxPercent attribute
        definition
        use to control AdvFS cache size
        use to control AdvFS cache size

AdvfsFavorBlockingQueue attribute
        definition

AdvfsMaxDevQLen attribute
        definition
        use to modify device queue limits

AdvfsMaxFragGrps attribute
        definition

AdvfsMinFragGrps attribute
        definition

AdvfsReadyQLim attribute
        definition
        use to control AdvFS dirty data caching

advfsstat command
        use to display AdvFS performance statistics
        use to display AdvFS performance statistics

AdvfsSyncMmapPages attribute
        definition
        use to disable dirty mmapped page flushing

advscan command
        use to display file domain location
        use to display file domain location

aio-max-num attribute
        definition

aio-max-percent attribute
        definition

aio-max-retry attribute
        definition

aio-percpu-data attribute
        definition

aio-retry-scale attribute
        definition

aio-task-max-none attribute
        definition

applications
        allocating virtual address space to
        characteristics
        debugging
        displaying CPU and memory statistics for
        displaying resident set size
        displaying virtual address space size
        improving performance of
        increasing address space for
        increasing system resources for
        monitoring CPU and memory usage
        optimizing
        prioritizing
        profiling
        profiling
        profiling
        profiling
        profiling
        profiling
        profiling
        profiling
        profiling tools
        reducing memory requirements
        using granularity hints
        using parallelism
        using shared libraries

arptab-nb attribute
        definition

asynchronous swap buffers
        definition
        definition

at command
        use to optimize CPU usage

atom toolkit
        use to profile applications

attributes
        definition
        displaying
        displaying
        list of
        modifying
        modifying
        modifying
        modifying
        modifying run-time values

audit-buffer-size attribute
        definition

audit-site-events attribute
        definition

autonice attribute
        definition

autonice-penalty attribute

autonice-time attribute

availability
        buses
        cluster interconnects
        definition
        definition
        disks
        disks
        disks
        disks
        eliminating points of failure
        failover
        impact on performance
        networks
        networks
        points of failure
        points of failure
        power
        systems
        systems
        systems
        systems
        using a cluster
        using LSM
        using RAID

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B

balance command
        use to move AdvFS files across volumes

bandwidth
        definition

basic-dma-window-size attribute
        definition

batch command
        use to optimize CPU usage

BCL
        See block-change logging

bdevsw_size attribute
        definition

binlog-buffer-size attribute
        definition

bio_stats structure
        determining block miss rate
        use to display metadata buffer cache statistics
        use to display metadata buffer cache statistics

bitmap metadata table
        See BMT

block-change logging
        use to improve mirroring performance

BMT
        definition
        improving performance of
        preallocating space for
        sizing

booted_args attribute
        definition

booted_kernel attribute
        definition

bottleneck
        definition
        impact on performance

bufcache attribute
        definition
        use to control metadata buffer cache size
        use to control metadata buffer cache size
        use to control size of metadata buffer cache

buffer-hash-size attribute
        definition
        use to control hash chain table size

buses
        availability
        distributing I/O across

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C

cache access times
        relative speeds

CAM
        monitoring
        tuning

cam_ccb_increment attribute
        definition
        use to tune CAM

cam_ccb_low_water attribute
        definition
        use to tune CAM

cam_ccb_pool_size attribute
        definition
        use to tune CAM

capacity
        definition
        impact on performance

cdevsw_size attribute
        definition

chfile command
        use to force AdvFS synchronous writes

chvol comand
        use to control AdvFS dirty data caching

chvol command
        use to colsolidate AdvFS I/O transfers
        use to decrease I/O transfer read-ahead size

Class Scheduler
        use to allocation CPU resources

clock-frequency attribute
        definition

cluster
        definition
        interconnect availability
        member systems
        products
        system support
        use for system availability

Common Access Method
        See CAM

configuration
        choosing a system
        definition
        planning
        planning
        recommendations
        steps

contig-malloc-percent attribute
        definition

copy-on-write page fault
        definition

cpu-enable-mask attribute
        definition

CPUs
        adding processors
        allocating resources
        improving performance of
        internal caches
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        optimizing resources
        scheduling jobs
        specifying the lockmode
        using the Class Scheduler

cpustat extension
        use to report CPU statistics
        use to report CPU statistics

create-fastlinks attribute
        definition

cron command
        use to optimize CPU usage

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D

dbx
        use to debug kernels
        use to display and modify run-time kernel variables
        use to display kernel variables
        use to display virtual memory statistics
        use to modify run-time kernel variables

dbx print nchstats
        use to display namei cache statistics

dbx print vm_perfsum
        use to display UBC statistics
        use to display virtual memory statistics

dcpi tool
        use to profile systems

debugging tools
        dbx
        kdbx
        ladebug

DECevent utility
        use to diagnose performance problems
        use to monitor system events
        use to monitor system events

deferred swap mode
        definition

defragment command
        use to defragment AdvFS file domain

delay_wbuffers variable
        use to delay write buffer flushing

device_switch_inited attribute
        definition

device_switch_print attribute
        definition

device_switch_stale attribute
        definition

dfldsiz parameter
        when to tune

dflssiz parameter
        when to tune

dia command
        use for event logging

disk partitions
        managing disks with

disk quotas
        use to limit disk usage
        using AdvFS
        using UFS

disks
        availability
        availability
        availability
        availability
        defragmenting
        distributing file systems across
        distributing I/O across
        exercising
        managing with hardware RAID
        managing with LSM
        managing with LSM
        managing with partitions
        mirroring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring commands
        placing data on ZBR disks
        striping
        tuning recommendations
        using high-performance
        using Prestoserve
        using quotas
        using small platter sizes
        using solid-state
        using wide data paths

diskx exerciser
        use to exercise disks

DMA
        using for high performance

dma-sg-map-unload-zero attribute
        modifying for AlphaServer 8200 and 8400

dump-sp-threshold attribute
        definition

dump-user-pte-pages attribute
        definition

dumpfs command
        use to display UFS information
        use to display UFS information

dxkerneltuner
        use to display and modify attributes
        use to display attributes
        use to modify attributes

dxlsm
        use to graphically display LSM statistics
        use to graphically display LSM statistics

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E

enhanced-core-max-versions attribute
        definition

enhanced-core-name attribute
        definition

event logging
        use to monitor system events
        using DECevent utility
        using dia

extent map
        displaying
        displaying

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F

failover
        definition

fifo-do-adaptive attribute
        definition

file domain
        monitoring
        monitoring

file system metadata
        caching options

file systems
        distributing across disks
        exercising
        exercising
        managing with AdvFS
        managing with AdvFS
        tuning recommendations
        tuning VFS

files
        managing with AdvFS
        managing with AdvFS
        small files, handling many

filesets
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring

fragment size
        monitoring
        monitoring

free page list
        definition
        displaying pages on
        monitoring

fsx exerciser
        use to test file systems
        use to test file systems

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G

gh-chunks attribute
        use to reserve shared memory

gh-fail-if-no-mem attribute
        use to reserve shared memory

gh-min-seg-size attribute
        use to reserve shared memory

give-boost attribute
        definition

gprof command
        use to profile applications

granularity hints
        use to reserve shared memory

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H

hardware RAID
        choosing a chunk size
        configuration recommendations
        definition
        distributing disks across buses
        features
        installing spare disks
        products
        RAID level support
        striping mirrored disks
        using a write-back cache
        using dual-redundant controllers
        using same-capacity disks
        using write-back cache
        using write-back cache
        See also RAID

high availability
        See availability

hiprof
        use to profile applications
        See atom toolkit

host bus adapters
        using DMA
        using high-performance

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I

I/O clustering
        checking cluster reads and writes

idle time
        monitoring
        monitoring

immediate swap mode
        definition

inactive page list
        definition
        displaying pages on

inifaddr_hsize attribute
        definition
        use to improve IP lookups

inode-hash-size attribute
        definition

inodes
        reducing density of

Internet server
        definition

interprocess communications
        See IPC

interrupts
        monitoring

iostat command
        use to diplay disk and CPU usage
        use to display CPU usage
        use to display disk usage

IPC
        description
        monitoring
        tuning
        See also System V IPC

ipcs command
        use to monitor IPC
        use to monitor IPC

ipdefttl attribute
        definition

ipdirected_broadcast attribute
        definition

ipforwarding attribute
        definition

ipfragttl attribute
        definition

ipgateway attribute
        definition

ipport_userreserved attribute
        definition
        use to increase concurrent ports

ipsendredirects attribute
        definition

ipsrcroute attribute
        definition

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J

job priority
        adjusting to optimize CPU usage

job scheduling
        use to optimize CPU usage

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K

kdbx
        use to debug kernels

kernel
        attributes
        debugging
        debugging tools
        debugging tools
        displaying variable values
        modifying attributes
        modifying parameters
        modifying variables
        profiling
        reducing size of
        reducing size of

kernel preemption, real-time
        rt-preempt-opt attribute settings

kernel variables
        displaying
        modifying
        using dbx to display and modify

kernel-stack-guard-pages attribute
        definition

kmem_debug attribute
        definition

kprofile utility
        use to profile kernels

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L

ladebug
        use to debug kernels and applications

large programs
        See program size limits

latency
        definition

lite-system attribute
        definition

lockdebug attribute
        definition

lockmaxcycles attribute
        definition

lockmode
        specifying for CPU

lockmode attribute
        definition

locks
        monitoring
        monitoring

lockstat extension
        displaying lock statistics

lockstats extension
        use to display lock statistics

locktimeout attribute
        definition

LSM
        choosing a mirrored volume read policy
        configuration recommendations
        distributing database and log copies
        distributing striped volume subdisks
        features
        grouping disks
        increasing disks in a striped volume
        increasing maximum volumes
        increasing the page-out rate
        increasing volinfo.max_io parameter
        managing disks with
        mirroring volumes across busses
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring events with volstat
        monitoring events with volwatch
        monitoring tools
        RAID support
        RAID support
        sizing BCL subdisks
        sizing private regions
        sizing private regions
        sizing rootdg
        sizing stripe widths
        tuning recommendations
        use for disk availability
        using a symmetrical configuration
        using BCL subdisks
        using block-change logging
        using database and log copies
        using mirrored volumes
        using multiple BCL subdisks
        using multiple plexes
        using sliced disks
        using solid-state disks for BCL subdisks
        using striped volumes
        using with hardware RAID

lsm_rootdev_is_volume attribute
        definition

lsm_swapdev_is_volume attribute
        definition

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M

malloc function
        use to control memory usage

max-free-file-structures attribute
        definition

max-ifq-length attribute
        definition

max-iosize-read attribute
        definition

max-iosize-write attribute
        definition

max-kernel-ports attribute
        definition

max-lock-per-thread attribute
        definition

max-per-proc-address-space attribute
        definition

max-per-proc-data-size attribute
        definition
        use to increase user data segment size

max-per-proc-stack-size attribute
        definition
        use to increase user address space

max-proc-address-size attribute
        use to increase user address space

max-proc-per-user attribute
        definition
        use to increase number of processes

max-threads-per-user attribute
        definition
        use to increase number of threads

max-ufs-mounts attribute
        definition

max-vnodes attribute
        definition
        use to increase number of open files

max-vol attribute
        definition
        use to increase number of LSM volumes

maxdsiz parameter
        when to tune

maxssiz parameter
        when to tune

maxusers attribute
        definition
        use to increase namei cache size
        use to increase number of open files
        use to increase system resources

max_callbacks attribute
        definition

member systems
        definition

Memory File System
        See MFS

memory management
        controlling paging and swapping
        CPU cache access
        effect of PAL code
        increasing system resources
        metadata buffer cache allocation
        overview
        paging
        prewriting dirty pages
        prewriting dirty pages
        swap buffers
        swapping
        tracking pages
        tuning the UBC
        tuning the UBC
        tuning virtual memory
        types of caches
        See also paging, swapping, UBC, virtual memory

memx exerciser
        use to exercise memory

message-buffer-size attribute
        definition

metadata buffer cache
        decreasing size of
        definition
        increasing size of
        increasing size of hash chain table
        monitoring
        monitoring
        tuning recommendations

MFS
        definition
        increasing the number of mounts

migrate command
        use to move AdvFS files

min-free-vnodes attribute
        definition
        use to cache more free vnodes

mirrored disks
        definition
        definition
        use for availability
        using hardware RAID
        using LSM

monitoring tools
        advfsstat command
        advfsstat command
        advscan command
        advscan command
        bio_stats structure
        bio_stats structure
        dbx
        dbx print nchstats
        dcpi tool
        diskx exerciser
        dumpfs command
        dumpfs command
        dxlsm
        dxlsm
        fsx exerciser
        fsx exerciser
        iostat command
        ipcs command
        LSM
        LSM
        netstat utility
        netstat utility
        networks
        nfsstat utility
        nfsstat utility
        nfswatch command
        ping command
        ps
        ps command
        ps command
        showfdmn utility
        showfdmn utility
        showfile utility
        showfile utility
        showfsets utility
        showfsets utility
        sobacklog_drops attribute
        sobacklog_drops attribute
        sobacklog_hiwat attribute
        sobacklog_hiwat attribute
        somaxconn_drops attribute
        somaxconn_drops attribute
        swapon command
        sys_check utility
        sys_check utility
        tcpdump utility
        traceroute command
        ufs_clusterstats structure
        ufs_clusterstats structure
        uptime command
        vmstat utility
        volprint utility
        volprint utility
        volstat utility
        volstat utility
        voltrace utility
        voltrace utility
        volwatch script
        volwatch script
        w utility
        xload command

Motif applications
        compilation options

msg-max attribute
        definition
        definition
        use to increase message size

msg-mnb attribute
        definition

msg-mnb attribute (IPC)
        definition

msg-mni attribute
        definition

msg-mni attribute (IPC)
        definition

msg-tql attribute
        definition
        use to increase message queue size

msg-tql attribute (IPC)
        definition

msgbuf_size parameter
        definition

multiprocessing
        using

multiprocessor
        definition

must-be-root attribute
        definition

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N

name-cache-hash-size attribute
        definition
        use to increase hash chain table size

name-cache-size attribute
        definition
        use to control namei cache size
        use to control namei cache size

namei cache
        decreasing size of
        increasing size of
        increasing size of hash chain table
        monitoring
        monitoring

namei-cache-valid-time attribute
        definition
        use to control vnode deallocation
        use to control vnode deallocation

ncallout attribute
        definition

ncallout_alloc_size attribute
        definition

nchstats structure
        use to check namei cache
        use to display namei cache statistics

nclist attribute
        definition

netisrthreads attribute
        definition

netstat utility
        use to display network statistics
        use to monitor networks

networks
        allocating memory for UBC
        availability
        availability
        decrease partial TCP timeout limit
        decreasing TCP context timeout limit
        decreasing the TCP retransmission rate
        delaying TCP data acknowledgment
        disabling use of a PMTU
        enabling keepalive
        hardware performance
        improving IP lookups
        improving TCP lookup rate
        increasing concurrent ports
        increasing TCP socket buffers
        increasing the TCP segment size
        increasing UDP socket buffers
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring events with tcpdump utility
        monitoring NFS servers
        monitoring socket listen queue events
        monitoring sockets
        monitoring sockets
        monitoring sockets
        monitoring sockets
        monitoring threads
        monitoring tools
        monitoring tools
        querying remote systems
        tuning recommendations
        tuning recommendations
        tuning socket listen queue
        using NFS in slow

new-wire-method attribute

NFS
        adjusting number of daemons
        adjusting number of nfsiod daemons
        decreasing timeouts
        disabling write gathering
        increasing number of threads
        modifying cache timeout limits
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring events with nfswatch
        monitoring servers
        tuning recommendations
        tuning recommendations
        using Prestoserve
        using protocol version 3.0

nfs-flatten-mode attribute
        definition

nfsd daemon
        adjusting number of nfsd daemons

nfsiod daemon
        adjusting number of daemons

nfsstat utility
        use to display network and NFS statistics
        use to monitor NFS

nfswatch command
        use to monitor NFS events
        use to monitor NFS server

nice command
        use to decrease system load
        use to optimize CPU usage

nmount attribute
        definition

noadd-exec-access attribute
        definition

nptys attribute
        definition

nslip attribute
        definition

nstrpush attribute
        definition

num-of-sems attribute
        definition

nvnode attribute
        definition

nxprbufs attribute
        definition

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O

old_obreak attribute
        definition

open-max-hard attribute
        definition
        use to control open file descriptors

open-max-soft attribute
        definition
        use to control open file descriptors

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P

page
        definition

page coloring
        definition

page fault
        definition

page in
        monitoring

page lists
        tracking

page out
        monitoring

page table
        definition

page-in page fault
        definition

pageouts
        definition

pages
        distribution of
        monitoring
        reclaiming
        tracking

paging
        attributes
        controlling rate of
        definition
        definition
        definition
        increasing threshold
        monitoring
        monitoring
        reclaiming pages
        reducing rate of
        starting
        threshold
        threshold

PAL code
        influence on memory management

parallelism
        using in applications

parameters
        definition
        modifying
        modifying

path-num-max attribute
        definition

per-proc-address-space attribute
        definition
        use to increase user address space

per-proc-data-size attribute
        definition
        use to increase user data segment size

per-proc-stack-size attribute
        definition
        use to increase user address space

Performance Manager
        use to monitor system events
        use to monitor system events

Performance Visualizer
        use to monitor cluster events
        use to monitor cluster events

physical memory
        definition
        determining requirements for
        distribution of
        distribution of
        reducing wired memory
        reserving for shared memory
        UBC
        virtual memory
        wired

physio_max_coalescing attribute
        definition

ping command
        use to query remote system

pipe-databuf-size attribute
        definition

pipe-max-bytes-all-pipes attribute
        definition

pipe-maxbuf-siz attribute
        definition

pipe-single-write-max attribute
        definition

pipes

pixie
        use to profile applications
        See atom toolkit

pmtu_decrease_intvl attribute
        definition

pmtu_enabled attribute
        definition
        use to disable PMTU

pmtu_increase_intvl attribute
        definition

pmtu_rt_check_intvl attribute
        definition

points of failure
        buses
        cluster interconnects
        disks
        disks
        eliminating
        networks
        power
        systems
        systems

port-hash-max-num attribute
        definition

port-reserved-max-num attribute
        definition

power
        availability

Prestoserve
        prmetaonly attribute
        use to cache only metadata
        use to improve NFS performance
        use to improve synchronous writes

prewriting dirty pages
        controlling
        use to improve performance

priorities
        changing for applications

private-cache-percent attribute
        definition
        use to reserve cache memory

prmetaonly attribute
        definition
        use to cache only metadata

process management
        max-proc-per-user attribute

prof command
        use to profile applications

profiling tools
        atom toolkit
        gprof
        hiprof
        kprofile utility
        pixie
        prof
        third
        uprofile utility

program size limits
        how to adjust

ps command
        use to display CPU and memory usage
        use to display idle threads
        use to display process information
        use to display thread information

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RAID
        definition
        managing storage with
        product features
        system support of
        use for disk availability
        using LSM

RAID 0
        definition

RAID 1
        definition

RAID 3
        definition

RAID 5
        definition

RAID levels
        definition
        definition

random access patterns
        definition

raw I/O
        definition

real-time interprocess communication
        pipes and signals

real-time kernel preemption
        rt-preempt-opt attribute settings

redundancy
        definition
        multiple levels
        use for availability

reliability
        definition

resident set
        definition
        displaying size of

rotational latency
        definition

round-robin-switch-rate attribute
        definition

rt-preempt-opt attribute
        definition

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sb_max attribute
        definition

scalability
        definition
        definition

sched-min-idle attribute
        definition

seek time
        definition

sem-aem attribute
        definition
        definition

sem-mni attribute
        definition
        definition

sem-msl attribute
        definition
        definition

sem-opm attribute
        definition
        definition

sem-ume attribute
        definition
        definition

sem-vmx attribute
        definition
        definition

semaphore attributes
        list of

sequential access patterns
        definition

set-max-num attribute
        definition

shared memory
        exercising
        reserving memory for

shared memory segments
        tuning

shm-max attribute
        definition
        definition
        use to increase shared memory region size

shm-min attribute
        definition
        definition

shm-mni attribute
        definition
        definition

shm-seg attribute
        definition
        definition
        use to increase number of attached shared memory regions

shmx exerciser
        use to exercise shared memory

short page fault
        definition

showfdmn utility
        use to display file domain and volume statistics
        use to display file domain and volumestatistics

showfile utility
        use to display AdvFS file information
        use to display AdvFS file information

showfsets utility
        use to display fileset information
        use to display fileset information

signals

sigqueue-max-num attribute
        definition

SMP
        cpu-enable-mask attribute settings
        definition

snmp_devs attribute
        definition

sobacklog_drops attribute
        definition
        use to monitor sockets
        use to report socket information
        use to report socket information

sobacklog_hiwat attribute
        definition
        use to monitor sockets
        use to report socket information
        use to report socket information

sockets
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring

software RAID
        See LSM

solid-state disks
        definition

somaxconn attribute
        definition
        use to tune socket listen queue

somaxconn_drops attribute
        definition
        use to monitor sockets
        use to report socket information
        use to report socket information

sominconn attribute
        definition
        use to tune socket listen queue

special-vnode-alias-tbl-size attribute
        definition

ssm-enable-core-dump attribute
        definition

ssm-threshold attribute
        definition
        use to control shared page tables

stack size
        increasing

storage subsystems
        definition
        impact on performance

streams

striping
        definition
        using hardware RAID
        using LSM

striping files
        using AdvFS

strmsgsz attribute
        definition

subnetsarelocal attribute
        definition

swap I/O requests, asynchronous
        vm-asyncswapbuffers attribute

swap I/O requests, synchronous
        vm-syncswapbuffers attribute

swap out
        definition

swap space
        adding with swapon
        allocation modes
        configuration recommendations
        controlling I/O queue depth
        controlling I/O queue depth
        controlling I/O queue depth
        determining requirements for
        displaying
        distributing
        monitoring
        monitoring

swapin
        definition

swapon command
        use to add swap space
        use to monitor swap space
        use to monitor swap space
        use to monitor swap space

swapping
        attributes
        controlling rate of
        controlling rate of
        definition
        definition
        definition
        enabling aggressive
        impact on performance
        reducing rate of
        reducing rate of
        specifying additional disk space for
        starting
        starting
        stopping
        threshold

switchlog command
        use to move transaction log

symmetrical multiprocessing
        definition

synchronous swap buffers
        definition
        definition

synchronous write operations
        Prestoserve caching options

sys-v-mode attribute
        definition

sysconfig
        use to display attributes
        use to display attributes
        use to modify run-time attribute values

sysconfigdb
        use to modify attributes
        use to modify attributes

sysconfigtab file
        modifying with sysconfigdb

system events
        monitoring with DECevent
        monitoring with DECevent
        monitoring with nfswatch
        monitoring with Performance Manager
        monitoring with Performance Manager
        monitoring with Performance Visualizer
        monitoring with Performance Visualizer
        monitoring with tcpdump utility
        monitoring with volstat utility
        monitoring with volwatch

system jobs
        displaying statistics for

system load
        decreasing with nice
        displaying statistics for
        monitoring
        monitoring

system time
        monitoring
        monitoring

System V IPC

systems
        adding CPUs
        availability
        availability
        availability
        availability
        characteristics
        characteristics
        cluster support
        CPU processing speed
        host bus adapter support
        memory in
        monitoring
        multiprocessing
        network adapter support
        number of CPUs in
        optimizing CPU resources
        planning
        RAID support
        requirements for
        tuning recommendations

sys_check utility
        use to gather performance information
        use to gather performance information

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T

task-max attribute
        definition
        use to increase number of tasks

tcbhashsize attribute
        definition
        use to improve TCP lookups

tcpdump utility
        use to monitor network events
        use to monitor network events

tcpnodelack attribute
        definition
        use to delay TCP data acknowledgment

tcprexmtthresh attribute
        definition

tcptwreorder attribute
        definition

tcp_compat_42 attribute
        definition

tcp_dont_winscale attribute
        definition

tcp_keepalive_default attribute
        definition
        use to enable keepalive

tcp_keepcnt attribute
        definition
        use to specify maximum keepalive probes

tcp_keepidle attribute
        definition
        use to specify idle time

tcp_keepinit attribute
        definition
        use to specify TCP timeout limit
        use to specify TCP timeout limit

tcp_keepintvl attribute
        definition
        use to specify retransmission probes

tcp_msl attribute
        definition
        use to decrease TCP context timeout limit

tcp_mssdflt attribute
        definition
        use to increase the TCP segment size

tcp_recvspace attribute
        definition
        use to increase TCP socket buffers

tcp_rexmit_interval_min attribute
        definition
        use to decrease TCP retransmission rate

tcp_rttdflt attribute
        definition

tcp_sendspace attribute
        definition
        use to increase TCP socket buffers

tcp_ttl attribute
        definition

tcp_urgent_42 attribute
        definition

third
        use to profile applications
        See atom toolkit

thread-max attribute
        definition
        use to increase number of threads

threads
        monitoring

throughput
        definition

traceroute command
        Displaying network packet route
        use to display packet route

tuning
        AdvFS recommendations
        AdvFS recommendations
        CPUs
        definition
        disk recommendations
        file system recommendations
        Internet server recommendations
        low-memory workstation recommendations
        memory recommendations
        metadata buffer cache recommendations
        network recommendations
        NFS recommendations
        recommendations
        steps for
        system recommendations
        UBC recommendations
        UFS recommendations
        UFS recommendations
        virtual memory recommendations

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UBC
        allocating memory for
        allocating memory to
        allocating memory to
        borrowing threshold
        controlling large file caching
        controlling the write device queue depth
        controlling the write device queue depth
        decreasing borrowed memory
        definition
        definition
        definition
        increasing maximum size of
        increasing minimum size of
        increasing size of
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        reducing size of
        reusing pages
        tuning recommendations
        use of
        using mmap to reduce disk I/O
        when to tune

UBC LRU page list
        definition
        displaying pages on

ubc-borrowpercent attribute
        definition
        use to control borrowed memory

ubc-maxdirtywrites attribute
        use to prewrite dirty pages
        use to prewrite pages

ubc-maxpercent attribute
        definition
        use to control UBC memory allocation
        use to control UBC memory allocation
        use to decrease paging
        use to set UBC maximum memory

ubc-minpercent attribute
        definition
        use to control UBC minimum size
        use to control UBC minimum size

ucred-max attribute
        definition

udpcksum attribute
        definition

udp_recvspace attribute
        definition
        use to increase UDP socket buffers

udp_sendspace attribute
        definition
        use to increase UDP socket buffers

udp_ttl attribute
        definition

UFS
        allocating contiguous blocks
        configuration recommendations
        defragmenting a file system
        delaying write buffer flushing
        exercising
        increasing blocks combined for a read
        increasing blocks combined for read ahead
        increasing the blocks combined for a write
        increasing the number of mounts
        modifying fragment size
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        reducing inode density
        tuning recommendations
        tuning recommendations
        using a memory file system (MFS)
        using quotas

ufs-blkpref-lookbehind attribute
        definition

ufs_clusterstats structure
        use to display UFS clustering statistics
        use to display UFS clustering statistics

ufs_getapage_stats structure
        use to check UBC

Unified Buffer Cache
        See UBC

uninterruptible power system
        See UPS

uprofile utility
        use to profile applications

UPS
        power availability

uptime command
        use to display system load
        use to display system load

user address space
        increasing

user data segment
        increasing

user time
        monitoring
        monitoring

users
        characteristics

user_cfg_pt attribute
        definition

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V

VFS
        definition

virtual address space
        definition
        definition
        displaying size of
        increasing

virtual file system
        definition

virtual memory
        accessing addresses
        address space
        definition
        definition
        enabling aggressive swapping
        exercising
        function of
        increasing address space
        increasing paging threshold
        increasing stack size
        increasing user address space
        increasing user data segment size
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        monitoring
        page faulting
        page table
        reducing application memory requirements
        resident set
        translating virtual addresses
        tuning recommendations
        use of
        when to tune
        working set

VLDB
        definition

VLM
        definition

vm-aggressive attribute
        use for aggressive swapping

vm-aggressive-swap attribute
        definition

vm-asyncswapbuffers attribute
        definition
        use to control swap I/O queue depth
        use to control swap I/O queue depth

vm-clustermap attribute
        definition

vm-clustersize attribute
        definition

vm-cowfaults attribute
        definition

vm-csubmapsize attribute
        definition

vm-heappercent attribute
        definition

vm-inswappedmin attribute
        definition

vm-kentry_zone_size attribute
        definition

vm-map-index-count attribute
        definition

vm-map-index-enabled attribute
        definition

vm-map-index-hiwat attribute
        definition

vm-map-index-lowat attribute
        definition

vm-map-index-rebalance attribute
        definition

vm-mapentries attribute
        definition
        use to increase mmapped files

vm-max-rdpgio-kluster attribute
        definition
        use to control page-in cluster size

vm-max-wrpgio-kluster attribute
        definition
        use to control page-out cluster size

vm-maxvas attribute
        definition
        use to increase address space
        use to increase address space

vm-maxwire attribute
        definition

vm-min-kernel-address attribute
        definition

vm-page-free-hardswap attribute
        definition
        use to set swapping threshold

vm-page-free-min attribute
        definition
        use to set free list minimum

vm-page-free-optimal attribute
        definition
        use to control rate of swapping
        use to set swapping threshold

vm-page-free-reserved attribute
        definition
        use to set privileged tasks threshold

vm-page-free-swap attribute
        definition
        use to set swapping threshold

vm-page-free-target attribute
        definition
        use to control paging
        use to set paging threshold

vm-page-lock-count attribute

vm-page-prewrite-target attribute
        definition
        use to prewrite dirty pages
        use to prewrite pages

vm-segment-cache-max attribute
        definition

vm-segmentation attribute
        definition

vm-syncswapbuffers attribute
        definition
        use to control swap I/O queue depth
        use to control swap I/O queue depth

vm-syswiredpercent attribute
        definition

vm-ubcbuffers attribute
        definition
        use to control write device queue depth
        use to control write device queue depth

vm-ubcdirtypercent attribute
        definition
        use to prewrite pages
        use to prewrite pages

vm-ubcpagesteal attribute
        definition

vm-ubcseqpercent attribute
        definition
        use to control large file caching

vm-ubcseqstartpercent attribute
        definition
        use to control large file caching

vm-vpagemax attribute
        definition
        use to increase protected pages

vm-zone_size attribute
        definition

vmstat command
        use to display virtual memory statistics
        use to monitor paging

vmstat utility
        use to display virtual memory and CPU statistics
        use to track page lists

vm_perfsum structure
        use to check UBC
        use to display UBC statistics
        use to display virtual memory statistics
        use to display virtual memory statistics

vnode-age attribute
        definition
        use to retain vnodes on free list

vnode-deallocation-enable attribute
        definition
        use to disable vnode deallocation

vnodes
        accelerating deallocation
        caching free
        delaying deallocation
        disabling deallocation
        retaining on free list

volinfo.max_io parameter
        using with LSM

volprint utility
        use to display LSM information
        use to display LSM information

volstat utility
        use to display LSM performance statistics
        use to display LSM performance statistics
        use to monitor LSM events

voltrace utility
        use to track volume I/O
        use to track volume I/O

volwatch command
        use to monitor LSM events

volwatch script
        use to monitor LSM objects
        use to monitor LSM objects

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W

w utility
        use to display system information

wired memory
        definition
        reducing

wired page list
        definition
        monitoring

working set
        definition

workload
        definition
        understanding
        understanding

write-back cache
        features
        using with hardware RAID
        using with hardware RAID
        using with multiprocessing systems

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X

X server
        terminate option

X Window system
        reducing memory consumption

X/Open Transport Interface

xload command
        use to monitor system load
        use to monitor system load

xprflags attribute
        definition

XTI

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Z

zero-filled-on-demand page fault
        definition


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