Index

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A

access patterns
        random (Sec. 1.1)
        sequential (Sec. 1.1)

accounting
        monitoring resources (Sec. 3.2)

active page list (Sec. 6.1.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3.1)

adaptive RAID 3/5 (Sec. 1.2.3.1)

AdvFS
        access structure tuning (Sec. 6.4.5)
        access structure tuning (Sec. 9.3.6.3)
        access structures (Sec. 9.3.3)
        balancing volumes (Sec. 9.3.7.4)
        blocking queue (Sec. 9.3.2)
        buffer cache (Sec. 6.1.2.3)
        buffer cache tuning (Sec. 6.4.4)
        buffer cache tuning (Sec. 9.3.2)
        buffer cache tuning (Sec. 9.3.6.1)
        buffer hash chains (Sec. 9.3.6.2)
        configuration guidelines (Sec. 9.3.4)
        configuring file domains (Sec. 9.3.4.1)
        configuring filesets (Sec. 9.3.4.2)
        configuring root (Sec. 9.3.4.8)
        consol queue (Sec. 9.3.2)
        consolidating I/O transfers (Sec. 9.3.4.11)
        defragmenting file domains (Sec. 9.3.7.1)
        defragmenting file domains (Sec. 9.3.7.5)
        device queue (Sec. 9.3.2)
        device queue size (Sec. 9.3.6.6)
        disks in file domains (Sec. 9.3.4.1)
        displaying extent map (Sec. 9.3.5)
        displaying extent map (Sec. 9.3.5.4)
        enabling direct I/O (Sec. 9.3.4.7)
        extents (Sec. 9.3.1)
        features (Sec. 9.3.1)
        flushing modified mmapped pages (Sec. 9.3.6.7)
        flushing read access times (Sec. 9.2.8)
        forcing synchronous writes (Sec. 9.3.4.5)
        I/O queues (Sec. 9.3.2)
        improving performance guidelines (Sec. 9.3.7)
        lazy queue (Sec. 9.3.2)
        managing files with (Sec. 9.3)
        migrating files (Sec. 9.3.7.5)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.3.5)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.3.5.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.3.5.2)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.3.5.3)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.3.5.4)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.3.5.5)
        monitoring the BMT (Sec. 9.3.5)
        monitoring the BMT (Sec. 9.3.5.6)
        moving transaction log (Sec. 9.3.7.3)
        multiple-volume domains (Sec. 9.3.4.1)
        page size (Sec. 9.3.2)
        preventing partial data writes (Sec. 9.3.4.6)
        quotas (Sec. 9.3.4.10)
        ready queue (Sec. 9.3.2)
        ready queue (Sec. 9.3.6.4)
        smooth sync queue (Sec. 9.3.2)
        spread I/O load (Sec. 9.3.4.3)
        striping files (Sec. 9.3.4.9)
        transaction log relocation (Sec. 9.3.4.4)
        transfer size (Sec. 9.3.7.2)
        tuning guidelines (Sec. 9.3.6)
        using smooth sync caching for asynchronous I/O (Sec. 9.3.6.5)
        wait queue (Sec. 9.3.2)

AdvfsAccessMaxMaxPercent attribute
        decreasing memory for access structures (Sec. 6.4.5)

AdvfsAccessMaxPercent attribute
        controlling memory reserved for access structures (Sec. 9.3.6.3)

AdvfsCacheHashSize attribute
        increasing the number of hash chains (Sec. 9.3.6.2)

AdvfsCacheMaxPercent attribute
        controlling AdvFS cache size (Sec. 6.4.4)
        increasing AdvFS cache size (Sec. 9.3.6.1)

advfsd daemon
        stopping (Sec. 7.2.5)

AdvfsMaxDevQLen attribute
        increasing device queue size (Sec. 9.3.6.6)

AdvfsMaxFreeAccessPercent attribute
        controlling percentage of access structures on free list (Sec. 9.3.6.3)

AdvfsMinFreeAccess attribute
        controlling size of access structure free list (Sec. 9.3.6.3)

AdvfsReadyQLim attribute
        controlling AdvFS asynchronous I/O request caching (Sec. 9.3.6.4)

advfsstat command
        displaying AdvFS performance statistics (Sec. 9.3.5)
        displaying AdvFS performance statistics (Sec. 9.3.5.1)

AdvfsSyncMmapPages attribute
        disabling modified mmapped page flushing (Sec. 9.3.6.7)

advscan command
        displaying file domain location (Sec. 9.3.5)
        displaying file domain location (Sec. 9.3.5.2)

anonymous memory
        calculating amount of (Sec. 2.3.2.3)

anon_rss_enforce attribute
        limiting resident set size (Sec. 6.5.5)

applications
        address space (Sec. 5.3)
        characteristics (Sec. 2.1)
        compilers (Sec. 11.2.2)
        CPU and memory statistics (Sec. 7.1)
        debugging (Sec. 11.1)
        debugging (Sec. 11.1)
        debugging (Sec. 11.1)
        granularity hints (Sec. 6.6.2)
        improving performance (Sec. 11.2)
        memory locking (Sec. 11.2.7)
        memory requirements (Sec. 11.2.6)
        memory usage (Sec. 6.4)
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3.2)
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3.2)
        monitoring (Sec. 7.1.1)
        parallelism (Sec. 11.2.3)
        patches (Sec. 11.2.1)
        priorities (Sec. 7.2.3)
        process resources (Sec. 5.1)
        profiling (Sec. 11.1)
        profiling (Sec. 11.1)
        resident set size (Sec. 6.3.2)
        shared libraries (Sec. 11.2.5)
        virtual address space (Sec. 6.1.3.1)
        virtual address space (Sec. 6.3.2)

arptab_depth attribute
        specifying ARP table depth (Sec. 10.2.18)

arptab_nb attribute
        specifying ARP table width (Sec. 10.2.18)

asynchronous I/O (Sec. 9.3.2)

asynchronous swap buffers (Sec. 6.1.4.3)
asynchronous swap buffers (Sec. 6.5.11)
asynchronous swap buffers (Sec. 6.5.12)

at command
        scheduling applications (Sec. 7.2.4)

atom toolkit
        profiling applications (Sec. 11.1)

atomic write data logging
        using to prevent partial data writes (Sec. 9.3.4.6)

attributes
        displaying subsystems (Sec. 3.6.1)
        displaying values for (Sec. 3.6.2)
        displaying values for (Sec. 3.6.3)
        managing (Sec. 3.6)
        modifying run-time values (Sec. 3.6.4)
        modifying values at boot time (Sec. 3.6.5)
        modifying values permanently (Sec. 3.6.6)

availability (Sec. 1.3)
        buses (Sec. 2.6.2)
        cluster interconnects (Sec. 2.6.1)
        disk (Sec. 2.6)
        disk (Sec. 2.6.2)
        failover (Sec. 2.6.1)
        LSM (Sec. 2.6.2)
        networks (Sec. 2.6.3)
        points of failure (Sec. 1.3)
        power (Sec. 2.6.4)
        RAID features (Sec. 2.6.2)
        systems (Sec. 2.6)
        systems (Sec. 2.6.1)

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balance command
        moving AdvFS files across volumes (Sec. 9.3.7.4)

bandwidth (Sec. 1.1)

batch command
        scheduling applications (Sec. 7.2.4)

bio_stats structure
        determining block miss rate (Sec. 9.4.3.1)
        displaying metadata buffer cache statistics (Sec. 9.4.2)
        displaying metadata buffer cache statistics (Sec. 9.4.2.3)

bitmap metadata table
        See BMT

BMT
        description of (Sec. 9.3.5.6)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.3.5.6)

bottleneck (Sec. 1.1)

bufcache attribute
        controlling metadata buffer cache size (Sec. 6.4.6)
        controlling metadata buffer cache size (Sec. 9.4.2.3)
        controlling metadata buffer cache size (Sec. 9.4.3.1)

buffer caches (Sec. 1.2.2)

buffer_hash_size attribute
        controlling hash chain table size (Sec. 9.4.3.2)

bufpages attribute
        specifying pages in metadata buffer cache (Sec. 6.4.6)

buses
        availability (Sec. 2.6.2)
        distributing data (Sec. 8.1)
        length (Sec. 1.2.3.2.4)
        speed (Sec. 1.2.3.2.3)
        termination (Sec. 1.2.3.2.4)

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C

cache access times (Sec. 1.2.1)

CAM
        monitoring (Sec. 8.6)
        tuning (Sec. 8.6)

cam_ccb_increment attribute
        tuning CAM (Sec. 8.6)

cam_ccb_low_water attribute
        tuning CAM (Sec. 8.6)

cam_ccb_pool_size attribute
        tuning CAM (Sec. 8.6)

chfile command
        forcing AdvFS synchronous writes (Sec. 9.3.4.5)
        preventing partial AdvFS data writes (Sec. 9.3.4.6)

chvol command
        consolidating AdvFS I/O transfers (Sec. 9.3.4.11)
        controlling AdvFS dirty data caching (Sec. 9.3.6.4)
        modifying I/O transfer size (Sec. 9.3.7.2)

Class Scheduler
        allocating CPU resources (Sec. 7.2.2)

clusters (Sec. 2.6.1)

cluster_consec_init kernel variable
        increasing read-ahead blocks (Sec. 9.4.3.5)

cluster_maxcontig kernel variable
        increasing blocks in a cluster (Sec. 9.4.3.6)

cluster_read_all kernel variable
        enabling cluster read operations (Sec. 9.4.3.5)

Common Access Method
        See CAM

configuration
        planning (Sec. 2.0)

copy-on-write page fault (Sec. 6.1.3.3)

CPUs
        adding processors (Sec. 7.2.1)
        Class Scheduler (Sec. 7.2.2)
        improving performance (Sec. 7.2)
        internal caches (Sec. 1.2.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3.2)
        monitoring (Sec. 7.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 7.1.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 7.1.2)
        monitoring (Sec. 7.1.4)
        monitoring (Sec. 8.3)
        scheduling jobs (Sec. 7.2.4)
        using hardware RAID (Sec. 7.2.6)

cpustat extension
        reporting CPU statistics (Sec. 7.1)
        reporting CPU statistics (Sec. 7.1.4)

crash dumps
        determining swap space for (Sec. 2.3.2.3)

cron command
        scheduling applications (Sec. 7.2.4)

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D

data path (Sec. 1.2.3.2.1)

dbx
        checking the namei cache (Sec. 9.1.2)
        checking the namei cache (Sec. 9.5.1)
        debugging applications (Sec. 11.1)
        debugging kernels (Sec. 3.5)
        displaying active NFS server threads (Sec. 9.5.1)
        displaying kernel variables (Sec. 3.6.7)
        displaying UBC hit rate (Sec. 9.5.1)
        displaying UBC statistics (Sec. 6.3)
        displaying UBC statistics (Sec. 6.3.4)
        modifying kernel variables (Sec. 3.6.7)

debugging
        applications (Sec. 11.1)
        dbx (Sec. 11.1)
        dbx (Sec. 3.5)
        kdbx (Sec. 3.5)
        kernels (Sec. 3.5)
        ladebug (Sec. 11.1)
        ladebug (Sec. 3.5)

DECevent utility
        monitoring system events (Sec. 3.1)
        monitoring system events (Sec. 3.1.2)

deferred swap mode (Sec. 2.3.2.2)

defragment command
        AdvFS (Sec. 9.3.7.1)

delay_wbuffers variable
        delaying cluster flushing (Sec. 9.4.3.4)

df command
        monitoring file system disk space (Sec. 9.1.1)

dia command
        logging events (Sec. 3.1)

direct I/O (Sec. 9.3.4.7)

dirty-region logging
        configuration guidelines (Sec. 8.4.4)

disk
        availability (Sec. 2.6)
        availability (Sec. 2.6.2)
        characterizing I/O (Sec. 8.4.7.2)
        defragmenting (Sec. 9.3.7.1)
        defragmenting (Sec. 9.4.3.7)
        distributing data (Sec. 8.1)
        distributing file systems (Sec. 8.1)
        guidelines for distributing I/O (Sec. 8.1)
        hardware RAID (Sec. 8.5)
        high-performance (Sec. 2.4.1)
        improving performance (Sec. 8.0)
        LSM (Sec. 2.5.1)
        LSM (Sec. 8.4)
        LSM (Sec. 8.4.1)
        mirroring (Sec. 2.6.2)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.4.2)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.4.2.1)
        monitoring I/O distribution (Sec. 8.2)
        partitions (Sec. 2.5.1)
        pool of storage (Sec. 2.5.1)
        Prestoserve (Sec. 2.4.8)
        quotas (Sec. 3.2)
        RAID 5 (Sec. 1.2.3.1)
        solid-state (Sec. 2.4.2)
        striping (Sec. 2.5.2)
        using in hardware RAID subsystem (Sec. 8.5.1)
        using LSM hot sparing (Sec. 8.4.3.5)
        using LSM hot sparing (Sec. 8.4.6.3)
        wide data paths (Sec. 2.4.3)

disk quotas
        AdvFS (Sec. 9.3.4.10)
        limiting disk usage (Sec. 3.2)
        UFS (Sec. 9.4.1.6)

DMA host bus adapters
        using for high performance (Sec. 2.4.5)

DRL
        See dirty-region logging

dumpfs command
        displaying UFS information (Sec. 9.4.2)
        displaying UFS information (Sec. 9.4.2.1)

dynamic parity RAID (Sec. 1.2.3.1)
dynamic parity RAID (Sec. 2.5.3)

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E

eager swap mode (Sec. 2.3.2.2)

event logging
        dia command (Sec. 3.1)
        options for (Sec. 3.1)
        uerf command (Sec. 3.1)

Event Manager
        monitoring system events (Sec. 3.1.1)

event monitoring
        DECevent (Sec. 3.1.2)
        Event Manager (Sec. 3.1.1)
        nfswatch (Sec. 3.3)
        Performance Manager (Sec. 3.3)
        Performance Manager (Sec. 3.3.1)
        Performance Visualizer (Sec. 3.3)
        Performance Visualizer (Sec. 3.3.2)
        volstat utility (Sec. 3.3)
        volwatch command (Sec. 3.3)

extent map
        displaying (Sec. 9.3.5)
        displaying (Sec. 9.3.5.4)

extents (Sec. 9.3.1)

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failover (Sec. 2.6.1)

file domains
        configuring (Sec. 9.3.4.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.3.5)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.3.5.3)

file systems
        AdvFS (Sec. 9.3)
        distributing (Sec. 8.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.3.5)
        tuning (Sec. 9.2)
        tuning (Sec. 9.2)
        tuning (Sec. 9.3.6)
        tuning (Sec. 9.4.3)
        UFS (Sec. 9.4)

filesets
        configuring (Sec. 9.3.4.2)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.3.5)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.3.5)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.3.5.4)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.3.5.5)

free page list (Sec. 6.1.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3.1)

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G

gh_chunks attribute
        reserving shared memory (Sec. 6.6)

gh_fail_if_no_mem attribute
        reserving shared memory (Sec. 6.6.1)

gh_min_seg_size attribute
        reserving shared memory (Sec. 6.6.1)

gprof command
        profiling applications (Sec. 11.1)

granularity hints
        reserving shared memory (Sec. 6.6)

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H

hardware
        CPUs (Sec. 2.3.1)
        disk storage (Sec. 2.3.4)
        high performance (Sec. 2.3)
        high performance (Sec. 2.4)
        memory boards (Sec. 2.3.2)
        networks (Sec. 2.3.5)
        storage (Sec. 2.3.3)
        storage (Sec. 2.4)

hardware RAID (Sec. 8.5)
        See also RAID
        configuration guidelines (Sec. 8.5)
        configuration guidelines (Sec. 8.5.3)
        disk capacity (Sec. 8.5.3.2)
        distributing disk data (Sec. 8.5.3.1)
        dual-redundant controllers (Sec. 8.5.3.6)
        features (Sec. 8.5.1)
        products (Sec. 8.5.2)
        RAID support (Sec. 8.5.1)
        spare disks (Sec. 8.5.3.7)
        stripe size (Sec. 8.5.3.3)
        striping mirrored disks (Sec. 8.5.3.4)
        write-back cache (Sec. 8.5.1)
        write-back cache (Sec. 8.5.3.5)

high availability
        See availability

hiprof
        See also atom toolkit
        profiling applications (Sec. 11.1)

host bus adapters
        high-performance (Sec. 2.4.4)

hot sparing
        using with LSM mirrored volumes (Sec. 8.4.3.5)
        using with LSM RAID 5 (Sec. 8.4.6.3)

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I/O clustering
        checking cluster reads and writes (Sec. 9.4.2.2)

idle time
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 7.1.2)
        monitoring (Sec. 8.3)

immediate swap mode (Sec. 2.3.2.2)

inactive page list (Sec. 6.1.1)

inifaddr_hsize attribute
        improving IP address lookups (Sec. 10.2.10)

inodes
        reducing density of (Sec. 9.4.1.2)

Internet server
        definition of (Sec. 5.1)
        tuning (Sec. 4.2.1)

interprocess communications
        See IPC

interrupts
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3.1)

iostat command
        displaying CPU usage (Sec. 8.3)
        displaying disk usage (Sec. 8.3)

IPC (Sec. 5.4)
        See also System V IPC
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3)
        monitoring (Sec. 7.1)

ipcs command
        monitoring IPC (Sec. 5.4)
        monitoring IPC (Sec. 6.3)
        monitoring IPC (Sec. 7.1)

ipintrq data structure
        checking dropped packets (Sec. 10.2.20)

ipport_userreserved attribute
        increasing number of outgoing connection ports (Sec. 10.2.4)

ipport_userreserved_min attribute
        modifying range of outgoing ports (Sec. 10.2.5)

ipqmaxlen attribute
        preventing dropped packets (Sec. 10.2.20)

ipqs attribute
        increasing IP input queues (Sec. 10.2.7)

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K

kdbx
        debugging kernels (Sec. 3.5)

kernel
        debugging (Sec. 11.1)
        debugging (Sec. 3.5)
        debugging (Sec. 3.5)
        debugging (Sec. 3.5)
        displaying attribute values (Sec. 3.6.2)
        displaying attribute values (Sec. 3.6.3)
        displaying subsystems (Sec. 3.6.1)
        displaying variable values (Sec. 3.6.7)
        managing attributes (Sec. 3.6)
        modifying (Sec. 3.6)
        modifying attribute values at boot time (Sec. 3.6.5)
        modifying attribute values at run time (Sec. 3.6.4)
        modifying attribute values permanently (Sec. 3.6.6)
        profiling (Sec. 3.5)
        profiling (Sec. 3.5)
        reducing size of (Sec. 6.4.2)

kmemreserve_percent attribute
        increasing memory reserved for kernel allocations (Sec. 6.4.8)

kprofile utility
        profiling kernels (Sec. 3.5)

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ladebug
        debugging kernels and applications (Sec. 11.1)
        debugging kernels and applications (Sec. 3.5)

large programs
        See program size limits

latency (Sec. 1.1)

lazy swap mode (Sec. 2.3.2.2)

locks
        monitoring (Sec. 7.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 7.1.5)

lockstats extension
        displaying lock statistics (Sec. 7.1)
        displaying lock statistics (Sec. 7.1.5)

LSM
        configuration guidelines (Sec. 8.4.2)
        data availability (Sec. 2.6.2)
        DRL configuration guidelines (Sec. 8.4.4)
        DRL subdisks (Sec. 8.4.4.3)
        features (Sec. 8.4.1)
        hardware RAID (Sec. 8.4.4.5)
        hot sparing for RAID 1 (Sec. 8.4.3.5)
        hot sparing for RAID 5 (Sec. 8.4.6.3)
        identifying bottlenecks (Sec. 8.4.7.2)
        improving performance (Sec. 8.4.7.2)
        log plexes (Sec. 8.4.4.1)
        log size (Sec. 8.4.4.2)
        managing disks (Sec. 8.4)
        mirrored volume read policies (Sec. 8.4.3.3)
        mirrored volumes (Sec. 8.4.3)
        mirrored volumes (Sec. 8.4.3.1)
        mirrored volumes (Sec. 8.4.4)
        mirroring root file system (Sec. 8.4.2.6)
        mirroring striped data (Sec. 8.4.3.1)
        mirroring swap devices (Sec. 8.4.2.7)
        monitoring (Sec. 3.3)
        monitoring (Sec. 8.4.7)
        monitoring (Sec. 8.4.7)
        monitoring (Sec. 8.4.7)
        monitoring (Sec. 8.4.7)
        monitoring (Sec. 8.4.7)
        monitoring (Sec. 8.4.7)
        monitoring (Sec. 8.4.7)
        monitoring (Sec. 8.4.7.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 8.4.7.2)
        monitoring (Sec. 8.4.7.3)
        monitoring (Sec. 8.4.7.4)
        monitoring (Sec. 8.4.7.5)
        organizing disk groups (Sec. 8.4.2.5)
        page-out rate (Sec. 6.5.11)
        placing mirrored plexes (Sec. 8.4.3.1)
        plexes (Sec. 8.4.3.2)
        pool of storage (Sec. 2.5.1)
        private region sizes (Sec. 8.4.2.3)
        private region sizes (Sec. 8.4.2.4)
        RAID 5 logging (Sec. 8.4.6.1)
        RAID 5 volumes (Sec. 8.4.6)
        RAID support (Sec. 8.4)
        RAID support (Sec. 8.4.1)
        rootdg size (Sec. 8.4.2.2)
        saving the configuration (Sec. 8.4.2.8)
        sliced disks (Sec. 8.4.2.1)
        solid-state disks (Sec. 8.4.4.4)
        stripe size (Sec. 8.4.5.3)
        stripe size (Sec. 8.4.6.2)
        striped volume disks (Sec. 8.4.5.1)
        striped volume disks (Sec. 8.4.5.2)
        striped volume guidelines (Sec. 8.4.5)
        symmetrical configuration (Sec. 8.4.3.4)

lsof command
        displaying open files (Sec. 11.1)

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malloc function
        controlling memory usage (Sec. 11.2.6)

malloc map
        increasing (Sec. 6.4.8)

maxusers attribute
        increasing namei cache size (Sec. 9.2.1)
        increasing open files (Sec. 5.5.1)
        increasing system resources (Sec. 5.1.1)

max_per_proc_address_space attribute
        increasing user address space (Sec. 5.3)

max_per_proc_data_size attribute
        increasing maximum segment size (Sec. 5.2.1)

max_per_proc_stack_size attribute
        increasing maximum stack size (Sec. 5.2.2)

max_proc_per_user attribute
        increasing number of processes (Sec. 5.1.2)

max_threads_per_user attribute
        increasing number of threads (Sec. 5.1.3)

max_ufs_mounts attribute
        increasing the number of UFS mounts (Sec. 9.4.1.7)

max_vnodes attribute
        increasing open files (Sec. 5.5.1)

Memory File System
        See MFS

memory management
        See also paging, swapping, UBC, and virtual memory
        AdvFS buffer cache allocation (Sec. 6.1.2.3)
        buffer caches (Sec. 1.2.1)
        CPU cache access (Sec. 1.2.1)
        increasing memory resources (Sec. 6.4)
        locking (Sec. 11.2.7)
        metadata buffer cache (Sec. 6.1.2.1)
        network requirements (Sec. 2.3.2.1)
        operation (Sec. 6.1)
        overview (Sec. 1.2.2)
        paging (Sec. 6.1.4.2)
        PAL code (Sec. 6.1.3.3)
        prewriting modified pages (Sec. 6.1.4.1)
        prewriting modified pages (Sec. 6.5.6)
        prewriting modified pages (Sec. 6.5.7)
        swap buffers (Sec. 6.1.4.3)
        swap space requirements (Sec. 2.3.2.3)
        swapping (Sec. 6.1.4.3)
        tracking pages (Sec. 6.1.1)
        UBC (Sec. 6.1.2.2)

metadata buffer cache (Sec. 6.1.2.1)
        hash chain table size (Sec. 9.4.3.2)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.4.2)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.4.2.3)
        specifying pages in (Sec. 6.4.6)
        tuning (Sec. 6.4.6)
        tuning (Sec. 9.4.3.1)

MFS (Sec. 9.4.1.5)
        mount limit (Sec. 9.4.1.7)

migrate command
        defragmenting files (Sec. 9.3.7.5)
        moving AdvFS files (Sec. 9.3.7.5)

mirroring (Sec. 2.6.2)
        hardware RAID (Sec. 8.5.1)
        LSM (Sec. 8.4.3)
        RAID 1 (Sec. 1.2.3.1)

monitor command
        monitoring systems (Sec. 3.3)
        monitoring systems (Sec. 7.1)

monitoring
        AdvFS (Sec. 9.3.5)
        applications (Sec. 11.1)
        CAM (Sec. 8.6)
        CPUs (Sec. 7.1)
        disk I/O distribution (Sec. 8.2)
        disk I/O distribution (Sec. 8.3)
        file systems (Sec. 9.1)
        file systems (Sec. 9.3.5)
        file systems (Sec. 9.4.2)
        kernels (Sec. 3.5)
        LSM (Sec. 8.4.7)
        LSM (Sec. 8.4.7)
        lsof command (Sec. 11.1)
        memory (Sec. 6.3)
        monitor command (Sec. 3.3)
        namei cache (Sec. 9.1.2)
        networks (Sec. 10.1)
        NFS (Sec. 9.5.1)
        open files (Sec. 11.1)
        sockets (Sec. 10.1.2)
        swap space (Sec. 6.3)
        sys_check (Sec. 4.3)
        top command (Sec. 3.3)
        top command (Sec. 3.3)
        UFS (Sec. 9.4.2)

mount noatimes command
        disabling file read access time flushing (Sec. 9.2.8)

msg_max attribute
        increasing message size (Sec. 5.4.1)

msg_mnb attribute
        controlling number of bytes on a queue (Sec. 5.4.2)

msg_tql attribute
        increasing message queue size (Sec. 5.4.3)

multiprocessing (Sec. 7.2.1)

multiprocessor (Sec. 1.2.1)

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namei cache
        decreasing size of (Sec. 6.4.7)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.1.2)
        size (Sec. 9.2.1)
        tuning (Sec. 9.2.1)

namei_cache_valid_time attribute
        controlling vnode deallocation (Sec. 9.2.2)

name_cache_size attribute
        controlling namei cache size (Sec. 6.4.7)
        controlling namei cache size (Sec. 9.2.1)

nchstats structure
        checking the namei cache (Sec. 9.1.2)

NetRAIN
        network availability (Sec. 2.6.3)

netstat command
        checking for retransmitted packets (Sec. 10.2.13)
        monitoring dropped packets (Sec. 6.4.8)
        monitoring full sockets (Sec. 10.2.17)
        monitoring packets (Sec. 10.2.20)

netstat utility
        monitoring networks (Sec. 10.1.1)

networks
        ARP table size (Sec. 10.2.18)
        availability (Sec. 2.6.3)
        checking for dropped packets (Sec. 10.2.20)
        IP address lookup (Sec. 10.2.10)
        IP input queues (Sec. 10.2.7)
        keepalive (Sec. 10.2.9)
        mbuf cluster compression (Sec. 10.2.8)
        memory requirements (Sec. 2.3.2.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1.2)
        monitoring (Sec. 3.3)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.5.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.5.1.1)
        NetRAIN (Sec. 2.6.3)
        NFS limits (Sec. 9.5.2.5)
        outgoing connection ports (Sec. 10.2.4)
        outgoing connection ports (Sec. 10.2.5)
        partial TCP timeout limit (Sec. 10.2.11)
        PMTU (Sec. 10.2.6)
        preventing dropped packets (Sec. 10.2.20)
        socket buffer size (Sec. 10.2.19)
        socket listen queue (Sec. 10.2.3)
        TCP context timeout limit (Sec. 10.2.12)
        TCP data acknowledgment (Sec. 10.2.14)
        TCP hash table (Sec. 10.2.2)
        TCP lookup rate (Sec. 10.2.1)
        TCP retransmission rate (Sec. 10.2.13)
        TCP segment size (Sec. 10.2.15)
        TCP socket buffers (Sec. 10.2.16)
        tuning guidelines (Sec. 10.2)
        UDP socket buffers (Sec. 10.2.17)

NFS
        cache timeout limits (Sec. 9.5.2.4)
        client threads (Sec. 9.5.2.3)
        displaying UBC hit rate (Sec. 9.5.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 3.3)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.5.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.5.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.5.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.5.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.5.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.5.1.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.5.1.2)
        mount options (Sec. 9.5.2.4)
        server threads (Sec. 9.5.2.2)
        timeout limit (Sec. 9.5.2.5)
        tuning guidelines (Sec. 4.2.3)
        tuning guidelines (Sec. 9.5.2)
        using Prestoserve (Sec. 9.5.2.1)
        versions of (Sec. 9.5.2.6)
        write gathering (Sec. 9.5.2.3)

nfsd daemon (Sec. 9.5.2.2)

nfsiod daemon (Sec. 9.5.2.3)

nfsstat utility
        displaying NFS statistics (Sec. 9.5.1)

nfswatch command
        monitoring NFS (Sec. 3.3)
        monitoring NFS (Sec. 9.5.1)

nice command
        decreasing system load (Sec. 7.1.3)
        prioritizing applications (Sec. 7.2.3)

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open files
        displaying with lsof (Sec. 11.1)

open_max_hard attribute
        controlling open file descriptors (Sec. 5.5.2)

open_max_soft attribute
        controlling open file descriptors (Sec. 5.5.2)

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page coloring (Sec. 6.1.3.3)

page fault (Sec. 6.1.3.3)

page in
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3.1)

page lists
        tracking (Sec. 6.1.1)

page outs (Sec. 6.1.4.2)
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3.1)

page table (Sec. 6.1.3.2)

page-in page fault (Sec. 6.1.3.3)

pages
        distribution of (Sec. 1.2.2)
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3.1)
        reclaiming (Sec. 1.2.2)
        reclaiming (Sec. 6.1)
        reclaiming (Sec. 6.1.4)
        size (Sec. 1.2.2)
        size (Sec. 6.1)
        tracking (Sec. 6.1.1)

paging (Sec. 6.1.4.2)
        attributes for (Sec. 6.1.4)
        controlling rate of (Sec. 6.1.4.2)
        increasing threshold (Sec. 6.5.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3.1)
        reclaiming pages (Sec. 1.2.2)
        reclaiming pages (Sec. 6.1)
        reducing (Sec. 6.4.3)
        threshold (Sec. 6.1.4)
        threshold (Sec. 6.1.4)
        threshold (Sec. 6.1.4.2)

PAL code
        influence on memory management (Sec. 6.1.3.3)

parallelism
        using in applications (Sec. 11.2.3)

parity RAID (Sec. 2.5.3)

performance
        improving (Sec. 4.0)
        monitoring (Sec. 3.0)

Performance Manager
        monitoring system events (Sec. 3.3)
        monitoring system events (Sec. 3.3.1)

Performance Visualizer
        monitoring cluster events (Sec. 3.3)
        monitoring cluster events (Sec. 3.3.2)

per_proc_address_space attribute
        increasing user address space (Sec. 5.3)

per_proc_data_size attribute
        increasing default segment size (Sec. 5.2.1)

per_proc_stack_size attribute
        increasing maximum stack size (Sec. 5.2.2)

physical memory (Sec. 1.2.2)
        buffer caches (Sec. 1.2.2)
        distribution of (Sec. 1.2.2)
        distribution of (Sec. 1.2.2)
        distribution of (Sec. 6.1)
        process (Sec. 1.2.2)
        requirements (Sec. 2.3.2.1)
        reserving for shared memory (Sec. 6.6)
        UBC (Sec. 1.2.2)
        UBC (Sec. 6.1)
        virtual memory (Sec. 1.2.2)
        virtual memory (Sec. 6.1)
        wired (Sec. 1.2.2)
        wired (Sec. 6.1)

ping command
        querying remote system (Sec. 10.1)

pipes (Sec. 5.4)

pixie profiler
        See also atom toolkit
        profiling applications (Sec. 11.1)

pmtu_enabled attribute
        disabling PMTU (Sec. 10.2.6)

points of failure
        buses (Sec. 2.6.2)
        cluster interconnects (Sec. 2.6.1)
        disk (Sec. 2.6)
        disk (Sec. 2.6.2)
        networks (Sec. 2.6.3)
        power (Sec. 2.6.4)
        systems (Sec. 2.6)
        systems (Sec. 2.6.1)

power
        availability (Sec. 2.6.4)

Prestoserve
        caching only metadata (Sec. 9.2.9)
        improving synchronous writes (Sec. 2.4.8)
        NFS performance (Sec. 9.5.2.1)

prewriting modified pages (Sec. 6.1.4.1)
        decreasing (Sec. 6.5.7)
        increasing (Sec. 6.5.6)

priorities
        changing application (Sec. 7.2.3)

private_cache_percent attribute
        reserving cache memory (Sec. 6.1.3.3)

prmetaonly attribute
        caching only metadata (Sec. 9.2.9)

process
        resident set size limit (Sec. 6.5.5)

Process Tuner
        displaying process information (Sec. 7.1)

prof command
        profiling applications (Sec. 11.1)
        profiling applications (Sec. 3.5)

profiling
        applications (Sec. 11.1)
        kernel (Sec. 3.5)

program size limits
        tuning (Sec. 5.2)

ps command
        displaying CPU usage (Sec. 6.3.2)
        displaying CPU usage (Sec. 7.1.1)
        displaying idle threads (Sec. 9.5.1.2)
        displaying memory usage (Sec. 6.3.2)
        displaying thread information (Sec. 9.5.1)

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quota command
        displaying disk usage and limits (Sec. 9.3.5)

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RAID (Sec. 1.2.3.1)
        availability (Sec. 2.6.2)
        controllers (Sec. 2.4.6)
        hardware subsystem (Sec. 8.5)
        levels (Sec. 1.2.3.1)
        LSM (Sec. 8.4)
        LSM versus hardware RAID (Sec. 2.6.2)
        products (Sec. 1.2.3.1)
        striping versus RAID 5 (Sec. 8.4.6.2)

RAID 0 (Sec. 2.5.2)

RAID 3 (Sec. 2.5.3)

RAID 5 (Sec. 2.5.3)

RAID 5 volumes
        LSM (Sec. 8.4.6)

RAID levels (Sec. 1.2.3.1)

random access patterns (Sec. 1.1)

raw I/O (Sec. 1.1)

real-time interprocess communication
        pipes and signals (Sec. 5.4)

redundancy (Sec. 1.3)

reliability (Sec. 1.3)

resident set (Sec. 6.1.3.2)
        controlling size of (Sec. 6.5.5)
        displaying size of (Sec. 6.3.2)

rotational latency (Sec. 1.1)

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sbcompress_threshold attribute
        enabling mbuf cluster compressions (Sec. 10.2.8)

sb_max attribute
        increasing socket buffer size (Sec. 10.2.19)

scalability (Sec. 1.1)
scalability (Sec. 2.0)

SCSI
        bus length (Sec. 1.2.3.2.4)
        bus speed (Sec. 1.2.3.2.3)
        bus termination (Sec. 1.2.3.2.4)
        data path (Sec. 1.2.3.2.1)
        parallel (Sec. 1.2.3.2)
        transmission method (Sec. 1.2.3.2.2)

seek time (Sec. 1.1)

sequential access patterns (Sec. 1.1)

setrlimit
        controlling resource consumption (Sec. 5.0)

setrlimit system call
        setting resident set limit (Sec. 6.5.5)

shared memory
        reserving memory for (Sec. 6.6)

shm_max attribute
        increasing shared memory region size (Sec. 5.4.4)

shm_seg attribute
        increasing attached shared memory regions (Sec. 5.4.5)

short page fault (Sec. 6.1.3.3)

showfdmn utility
        displaying file domain and volume statistics (Sec. 9.3.5.3)

showfile utility
        displaying AdvFS file information (Sec. 9.3.5)
        displaying AdvFS file information (Sec. 9.3.5.4)

showfsets utility
        displaying fileset information (Sec. 9.3.5)
        displaying fileset information (Sec. 9.3.5.5)

signals (Sec. 5.4)

smooth sync queue (Sec. 9.3.2)

smoothsync_age attribute
        caching I/O longer (Sec. 9.3.6.5)
        caching I/O longer (Sec. 9.4.3.3)

SMP (Sec. 1.2.1)

sobacklog_drops attribute
        monitoring sockets (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring sockets (Sec. 10.1.2)

sobacklog_hiwat attribute
        monitoring sockets (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring sockets (Sec. 10.1.2)

sockets
        IPC (Sec. 5.4)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1.2)
        tuning (Sec. 10.2.16)
        tuning (Sec. 10.2.19)
        tuning (Sec. 10.2.3)

software RAID
        See LSM

solid-state disks (Sec. 2.4.2)

somaxconn attribute
        increasing socket listen queue (Sec. 10.2.3)

somaxconn_drops attribute
        monitoring sockets (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring sockets (Sec. 10.1.2)

sominconn attribute
        increasing socket listen queue (Sec. 10.2.3)

ssm_threshold attribute
        controlling shared page tables (Sec. 5.4.6)

stack size
        increasing (Sec. 5.2.1)

streams (Sec. 5.4)

striping (Sec. 2.5.2)
        hardware RAID (Sec. 8.5.1)
        LSM (Sec. 8.4.5)
        stripe size (Sec. 8.4.7.2)

striping files
        AdvFS (Sec. 9.3.4.9)

swap out (Sec. 6.1.4.3)

swap space
        allocation modes (Sec. 2.3.2.2)
        crash dump space (Sec. 2.3.2.3)
        decreasing I/O queue depth (Sec. 6.5.10)
        decreasing I/O queue depth (Sec. 6.5.12)
        determining requirements (Sec. 2.3.2.3)
        distributing (Sec. 6.2)
        I/O queue depth (Sec. 6.1.4.3)
        increasing I/O queue depth (Sec. 6.5.11)
        increasing I/O queue depth (Sec. 6.5.9)
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3.3)
        monitoring (Sec. 8.3)
        performance guidelines (Sec. 6.2)
        specifying (Sec. 6.2)
        vm_swap_eager attribute (Sec. 2.3.2.2)

swapdevice attribute
        specifying swap space (Sec. 6.2)

swapin (Sec. 6.1.4.3)

swapon command
        adding swap space (Sec. 6.2)
        adding swap space (Sec. 6.3)
        monitoring swap space (Sec. 6.3)
        monitoring swap space (Sec. 6.3.3)

swapping
        aggressive (Sec. 6.5.4)
        controlling rate of (Sec. 6.1.4.2)
        decreasing rate of (Sec. 6.5.3)
        disk space (Sec. 6.3)
        impact on performance (Sec. 6.1.4.3)
        increasing rate of (Sec. 6.5.2)
        operation (Sec. 6.1.4.3)
        threshold (Sec. 6.1.4)
        threshold (Sec. 6.1.4.3)

switchlog command
        moving transaction log (Sec. 9.3.7.3)

symmetrical multiprocessing (Sec. 1.2.1)

sync
        minimizing impact of (Sec. 6.1.4.1)

synchronous I/O (Sec. 9.3.2)

synchronous swap buffers (Sec. 6.1.4.3)
synchronous swap buffers (Sec. 6.5.10)
synchronous swap buffers (Sec. 6.5.9)

system events
        monitoring with tcpdump utility (Sec. 3.3)

system jobs
        displaying statistics for (Sec. 7.1)

system load
        decreasing with nice (Sec. 7.1.3)
        monitoring (Sec. 7.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 7.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 7.1.3)

system time
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 7.1.2)
        monitoring (Sec. 8.3)

System V IPC (Sec. 5.4)

systems
        adding CPUs (Sec. 7.2.1)
        availability (Sec. 2.6)
        availability (Sec. 2.6.1)
        cluster support (Sec. 2.6.1)
        CPUs (Sec. 2.3.1)
        CPUs (Sec. 2.3.1)
        disk storage support (Sec. 2.3.4)
        high-performance (Sec. 2.3)
        I/O bus slot capacity (Sec. 2.3.3)
        memory (Sec. 2.3.2)
        multiprocessing (Sec. 2.3.1)
        network support (Sec. 2.3.5)
        optimizing CPU resources (Sec. 7.2)

sys_check utility
        analyzing the system configuration (Sec. 4.3)
        analyzing the system configuration (Sec. 7.1)

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tcbhashnum attribute
        increasing number of hash tables (Sec. 10.2.2)

tcbhashsize attribute
        improving TCP lookups (Sec. 10.2.1)

tcpdump utility
        monitoring network events (Sec. 3.3)
        monitoring network packets (Sec. 10.1)

tcpnodelack attribute
        delaying TCP data acknowledgment (Sec. 10.2.14)

tcp_keepalive_default attribute
        enabling keepalive (Sec. 10.2.9)

tcp_keepcnt attribute
        specifying maximum keepalive probes (Sec. 10.2.9)

tcp_keepidle attribute
        use to specify idle time (Sec. 10.2.9)

tcp_keepinit attribute
        specifying TCP timeout limit (Sec. 10.2.11)
        specifying TCP timeout limit (Sec. 10.2.9)

tcp_keepintvl attribute
        specifying retransmission probes (Sec. 10.2.9)

tcp_msl attribute
        decreasing TCP context timeout limit (Sec. 10.2.12)

tcp_mssdflt attribute
        increasing the TCP segment size (Sec. 10.2.15)

tcp_recvspace attribute
        increasing TCP socket buffers (Sec. 10.2.16)

tcp_rexmit_interval_min attribute
        decreasing TCP retransmission rate (Sec. 10.2.13)

tcp_sendspace attribute
        increasing TCP socket buffers (Sec. 10.2.16)

third
        See also atom toolkit
        profiling applications (Sec. 11.1)

threads
        monitoring (Sec. 9.5.1)

throughput (Sec. 1.1)

top command
        monitoring systems (Sec. 3.3)
        monitoring systems (Sec. 7.1)

traceroute command
        displaying packet route (Sec. 10.1)

transmission method (Sec. 1.2.3.2.2)

tuning
        address space (Sec. 5.3)
        advanced (Sec. 4.5)
        AdvFS (Sec. 9.3.6)
        application memory (Sec. 11.2.6)
        CPUs (Sec. 7.2)
        file systems (Sec. 9.2)
        Internet servers (Sec. 4.2.1)
        IPC limits (Sec. 5.4)
        large memory systems (Sec. 4.2.2)
        memory (Sec. 6.4)
        memory (Sec. 6.5)
        network subsystem (Sec. 10.2)
        NFS (Sec. 4.2.3)
        NFS (Sec. 9.5.2)
        open file limits (Sec. 5.5)
        paging and swapping (Sec. 6.5)
        process limits (Sec. 5.1)
        program size limits (Sec. 5.2)
        special configurations (Sec. 4.2)
        steps for (Sec. 4.1)
        system resources (Sec. 5.0)
        UFS (Sec. 9.4.3)

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UBC (Sec. 1.2.2)
UBC (Sec. 1.2.2)
UBC (Sec. 6.1)
        allocating memory to (Sec. 6.1.2.2)
        borrowed memory (Sec. 9.2.5)
        borrowing threshold (Sec. 6.1.4.2)
        caching large files (Sec. 9.2.7)
        forcing the reuse of pages (Sec. 9.2.7)
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3)
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3.4)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.1.1)
        monitoring pages used by (Sec. 6.3.1)
        size (Sec. 9.2.4)
        size (Sec. 9.2.6)
        tuning (Sec. 9.2.4)
        tuning (Sec. 9.2.6)
        write device queue depth (Sec. 6.1.2.2)

UBC LRU page list (Sec. 6.1.1)

ubc_borrowpercent attribute
        controlling UBC borrowed memory (Sec. 9.2.5)

ubc_maxdirtywrites attribute
        prewriting modified pages (Sec. 6.1.4.1)
        prewriting modified pages (Sec. 6.1.4.1)
        prewriting modified pages (Sec. 6.5.6)
        prewriting modified pages (Sec. 6.5.7)
        prewriting pages (Sec. 6.5.6)

ubc_maxpercent attribute
        controlling paging (Sec. 6.4.3)
        controlling UBC memory allocation (Sec. 6.1.2.2)
        controlling UBC memory allocation (Sec. 9.2.4)

ubc_minpercent attribute
        controlling UBC minimum size (Sec. 6.1.2.2)
        controlling UBC minimum size (Sec. 9.2.6)

udp_recvspace attribute
        increasing UDP socket buffers (Sec. 10.2.17)

udp_sendspace attribute
        increasing UDP socket buffers (Sec. 10.2.17)

uerf command
        logging events (Sec. 3.1)
        monitoring memory (Sec. 6.3)

UFS
        block size (Sec. 9.4.1.1)
        blocks combined for a cluster (Sec. 9.4.1.4)
        combining blocks for a write (Sec. 9.4.3.6)
        combining blocks for read ahead (Sec. 9.4.3.5)
        configuration guidelines (Sec. 9.4.1)
        defragmenting (Sec. 9.4.3.7)
        enabling cluster read operations (Sec. 9.4.3.5)
        flushing clusters (Sec. 9.4.3.4)
        flushing read access times (Sec. 9.2.8)
        fragment size (Sec. 9.4.1.1)
        fragment size (Sec. 9.4.2.1)
        inode density (Sec. 9.4.1.2)
        memory file system (MFS) (Sec. 9.4.1.5)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.4.2)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.4.2.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.4.2.2)
        mount limit (Sec. 9.4.1.7)
        quotas (Sec. 9.4.1.6)
        sequential block allocation (Sec. 9.4.1.3)
        smooth sync caching (Sec. 9.4.3.3)
        tuning guidelines (Sec. 9.4.3)

ufs_clusterstats structure
        displaying UFS clustering statistics (Sec. 9.4.2)
        displaying UFS clustering statistics (Sec. 9.4.2.2)

ufs_getapage_stats structure
        monitoring the UBC (Sec. 6.3.4)
        monitoring UBC (Sec. 6.3)

Unified Buffer Cache
        See UBC

uninterruptible power supply system
        See UPS system

uprofile utility
        profiling applications (Sec. 11.1)

UPS system
        power availability (Sec. 1.3)
        power availability (Sec. 2.6.4)

uptime command
        displaying system load (Sec. 7.1)
        displaying system load (Sec. 7.1.3)

user address space
        increasing (Sec. 5.3)

user data segment
        increasing (Sec. 5.2.2)

user time
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 7.1.2)
        monitoring (Sec. 8.3)

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vbmtpg utility
        monitoring the BMT (Sec. 9.3.5)

vdf command
        displaying disk space usage (Sec. 9.3.5)

VFS
        tuning (Sec. 9.2)

virtual address space (Sec. 6.1.3.1)
virtual address space (Sec. 6.1.3.1)
        displaying size of (Sec. 6.3.2)

virtual file system
        See VFS

virtual memory
        accessing addresses (Sec. 6.1.3.3)
        address space (Sec. 6.1.3.1)
        aggressive swapping (Sec. 6.5.4)
        application memory requirements (Sec. 11.2.6)
        distribution of (Sec. 1.2.2)
        distribution of (Sec. 6.1)
        function of (Sec. 1.2.2)
        function of (Sec. 6.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3.2)
        monitoring pages used by (Sec. 6.3.1)
        page faulting (Sec. 6.1.3.3)
        page table (Sec. 6.1.3.2)
        paging operation (Sec. 6.1.4.2)
        paging threshold (Sec. 6.5.1)
        resident set (Sec. 6.1.3.2)
        swapping operation (Sec. 6.1.4.3)
        translating virtual addresses (Sec. 6.1.3.2)
        working set (Sec. 6.1.3.2)

Visual Threads
        profiling applications (Sec. 11.1)

VLM systems
        tuning (Sec. 4.2.2)

vmstat command
        monitoring dropped packets (Sec. 6.4.8)
        monitoring the CPU (Sec. 6.3)
        monitoring the CPU (Sec. 7.1.2)
        monitoring virtual memory (Sec. 6.3)
        monitoring virtual memory (Sec. 6.3.1)
        tracking page lists (Sec. 6.1.1)

vm_aggressive_swap attribute
        enabling aggressive swapping (Sec. 6.5.4)

vm_asyncswapbuffers attribute
        controlling swap I/O queue depth (Sec. 6.1.4.3)
        decreasing swap I/O queue depth (Sec. 6.5.12)
        increasing swap I/O queue depth (Sec. 6.5.11)

vm_max_rdpgio_kluster attribute
        increasing page-in cluster size (Sec. 6.5.8)

vm_max_wrpgio_kluster attribute
        controlling page-out cluster size (Sec. 6.5.8)

vm_page_free_hardswap attribute
        setting swapping threshold (Sec. 6.1.4)

vm_page_free_min attribute
        controlling rate of swapping (Sec. 6.5.2)
        controlling rate of swapping (Sec. 6.5.3)
        setting free list minimum (Sec. 6.1.4)

vm_page_free_optimal attribute
        controlling rate of swapping (Sec. 6.5.2)
        controlling rate of swapping (Sec. 6.5.3)
        setting swapping threshold (Sec. 6.1.4)

vm_page_free_reserved attribute
        setting privileged tasks threshold (Sec. 6.1.4)

vm_page_free_swap attribute
        setting swapping threshold (Sec. 6.1.4)

vm_page_free_target attribute
        controlling paging (Sec. 6.5.1)
        controlling rate of swapping (Sec. 6.5.2)
        controlling rate of swapping (Sec. 6.5.3)
        setting paging threshold (Sec. 6.1.4)

vm_page_prewrite_target attribute
        prewriting modified pages (Sec. 6.1.4.1)
        prewriting pages (Sec. 6.5.6)
        prewriting pages (Sec. 6.5.7)

vm_rss_block_target attribute
        setting free page threshold for resident set limit (Sec. 6.5.5)

vm_rss_maxpercent attribute
        setting resident set limit (Sec. 6.5.5)

vm_rss_wakeup_target attribute
        setting free page threshold for resident set limit (Sec. 6.5.5)

vm_swap_eager attribute
        use to specify allocation mode (Sec. 2.3.2.2)

vm_syncswapbuffers attribute
        controlling swap I/O queue depth (Sec. 6.1.4.3)
        decreasing swap I/O queue depth (Sec. 6.5.10)
        increasing swap I/O queue depth (Sec. 6.5.9)

vm_tune structure
        displaying UBC hit rate (Sec. 9.5.1)

vm_ubcbuffers attribute
        controlling write device queue depth (Sec. 6.1.2.2)

vm_ubcdirtypercent attribute
        prewriting pages (Sec. 6.1.4.1)
        prewriting pages (Sec. 6.5.6)
        prewriting pages (Sec. 6.5.7)

vm_ubcseqpercent attribute
        controlling large file caching (Sec. 9.2.7)

vm_ubcseqstartpercent attribute
        controlling large file caching (Sec. 9.2.7)

vnodes
        definition (Sec. 5.5.1)
        delaying deallocation (Sec. 9.2.2)
        retaining on free list (Sec. 9.2.3)

vnode_age attribute
        retaining vnodes on free list (Sec. 9.2.3)

volnotify utility
        monitoring LSM events (Sec. 8.4.7)
        monitoring LSM events (Sec. 8.4.7.5)

volprint utility
        displaying LSM information (Sec. 8.4.7)
        monitoring LSM (Sec. 8.4.7.1)

volstat utility
        displaying LSM performance statistics (Sec. 8.4.7)
        displaying LSM performance statistics (Sec. 8.4.7.2)
        monitoring LSM events (Sec. 3.3)

voltrace utility
        tracking volume I/O (Sec. 8.4.7)
        tracking volume I/O (Sec. 8.4.7.3)

volwatch script
        monitoring LSM events (Sec. 3.3)
        monitoring LSM events (Sec. 8.4.7)
        monitoring LSM objects (Sec. 8.4.7.4)

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w utility
        displaying system information (Sec. 7.1)

wired memory (Sec. 1.2.2)
wired memory (Sec. 6.1)

wired page list (Sec. 6.1.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 6.3.1)

working set (Sec. 6.1.3.2)

workload (Sec. 1.1)
        characterizing (Sec. 2.1)

write-back cache
        hardware RAID (Sec. 8.5.1)
        hardware RAID (Sec. 8.5.3.5)
        multiprocessing systems (Sec. 7.2.1)

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X/Open Transport Interface (Sec. 5.4)

xload command
        monitoring system load (Sec. 3.3)
        monitoring system load (Sec. 7.1)

XTI (Sec. 5.4)

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zero-filled-on-demand page fault (Sec. 6.1.3.3)