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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)
displaying (Sec. 6.3.1)
adaptive RAID 3/5 (Sec. 1.2.3.1)
AdvFS
access structure tuning (Sec. 9.1.4)
balancing volumes (Sec. 9.2.2.4)
blocking queue (Sec. 9.2.1)
configuration guidelines (Sec. 9.2.2)
consol queue (Sec. 9.2.1)
defragmenting file domains (Sec. 9.2.2.6)
device queue (Sec. 9.2.1)
displaying (Sec. 9.2.3)
displaying (Sec. 9.2.3.1)
displaying (Sec. 9.2.3.2)
displaying (Sec. 9.2.3.3)
displaying (Sec. 9.2.3.4)
displaying (Sec. 9.2.3.5)
displaying extent map (Sec. 9.2.3.4)
displaying the BMT (Sec. 9.2.3.6)
distributing data (Sec. 9.2.2.4)
distributing data (Sec. 9.2.2.5)
enabling direct I/O (Sec. 9.2.2.3)
flushing queue (Sec. 9.2.1)
I/O queues (Sec. 9.2.1)
lazy queue (Sec. 9.2.1)
managing files with (Sec. 9.2)
moving transaction log (Sec. 9.2.2.8)
preventing data loss (Sec. 9.2.2.2)
ready queue (Sec. 9.2.1)
smooth sync queue (Sec. 9.2.1)
striping files (Sec. 9.2.2.5)
transfer size (Sec. 9.2.2.7)
wait queue (Sec. 9.2.1)
AdvfsAccessMaxPercent attribute
controlling memory reserved for access structures (Sec. 9.1.4)
advfsd daemon
stopping (Sec. 7.2.5)
advfsstat command
displaying AdvFS performance statistics (Sec. 9.2.3.1)
advscan command
displaying file domain location (Sec. 9.2.3.2)
anonymous memory
calculating amount of (Sec. 2.3.2.3)
anon_rss_enforce attribute
limiting resident set size (Sec. 6.5.4)
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)
displaying (Sec. 6.3.2)
displaying (Sec. 6.3.2)
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. 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)
asynchronous I/O (Sec. 9.2.1)
asynchronous swap buffers (Sec. 6.1.4.3)
at command
scheduling applications (Sec. 7.2.4)
atom toolkit
profiling applications (Sec. 11.1)
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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B
balance command
distributing AdvFS data (Sec. 9.2.2.4)
bandwidth (Sec. 1.1)
batch command
scheduling applications (Sec. 7.2.4)
bio_stats structure
displaying metadata buffer cache statistics (Sec. 9.3.2.3)
bitmap metadata table
See BMT
blocking queue (Sec. 9.2.1)
BMT
displaying (Sec. 9.2.3.6)
bottleneck (Sec. 1.1)
bufcache attribute
controlling metadata buffer cache size (Sec. 9.1.3)
buffer_hash_size attribute
controlling hash chain table size (Sec. 9.1.3)
buses
availability (Sec. 2.6.2)
distributing data (Sec. 8.1)
length (Sec. 1.2.3.2.5)
speed (Sec. 1.2.3.2.2)
termination (Sec. 1.2.3.2.5)
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C
cache access times (Sec. 1.2.1)
caching data
physical memory (Sec. 1.2.2.2)
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
enabling atomic write data logging (Sec. 9.2.2.2)
preventing partial AdvFS data writes (Sec. 9.2.2.2)
chvol command
modifying I/O transfer size (Sec. 9.2.2.7)
Class Scheduler
allocating CPU resources (Sec. 7.2.2)
clusters (Sec. 2.6.1)
cluster_maxcontig kernel variable
increasing blocks in a cluster (Sec. 9.3.3.3)
Common Access Method
See CAM
Compaq Analyze (CA)
monitoring system events (Sec. 3.1)
Compaq Analyze
monitoring system events (Sec. 3.1.3)
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)
displaying (Sec. 6.3.1)
displaying (Sec. 6.3.2)
improving performance (Sec. 7.2)
internal caches (Sec. 1.2.1)
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
debugging applications (Sec. 11.1)
debugging kernels (Sec. 3.5)
displaying kernel variables (Sec. 3.6.7)
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. 9.2.2.6)
delay_wbuffers variable
delaying cluster writes (Sec. 9.3.3.2)
direct I/O (Sec. 9.2.2.3)
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. 9.2.2.6)
defragmenting (Sec. 9.3.3.4)
displaying (Sec. 9.3.2.1)
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 I/O distribution (Sec. 8.2)
partitions (Sec. 2.5.1)
pool of storage (Sec. 2.5.1)
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
limiting disk usage (Sec. 3.2)
UFS (Sec. 9.3.1.6)
displaying
file systems (Sec. 9.2.3)
file systems (Sec. 9.3.2)
memory (Sec. 6.3)
NFS (Sec. 9.4.1)
swap space (Sec. 6.3)
UFS (Sec. 9.3.2)
distributing data
AdvFS (Sec. 9.2.2.5)
DMA host bus adapters
using for high performance (Sec. 2.4.5)
DRL
See dirty-region logging
dumpfs command
displaying UFS information (Sec. 9.3.2.1)
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
options for (Sec. 3.1)
Event Manager
monitoring system events (Sec. 3.1.1)
event monitoring
Compaq Analyze (Sec. 3.1.3)
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. 9.2.3.4)
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F
failover (Sec. 2.6.1)
file domains
displaying (Sec. 9.2.3.3)
file systems
AdvFS (Sec. 9.2)
displaying (Sec. 9.2.3)
distributing (Sec. 8.1)
tuning (Sec. 9.3.3)
UFS (Sec. 9.3)
filesets
displaying (Sec. 9.2.3.4)
displaying (Sec. 9.2.3.5)
flush queue (Sec. 9.2.1)
free page list (Sec. 6.1.1)
displaying (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
I/O clustering
displaying cluster reads and writes (Sec. 9.3.2.2)
idle time
displaying (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. 9.3.1.2)
Internet server
definition of (Sec. 5.1)
tuning (Sec. 4.2.1)
interprocess communications
See IPC
interrupts
displaying (Sec. 6.3.1)
iostat command
displaying CPU usage (Sec. 8.3)
displaying disk usage (Sec. 8.3)
io_throttle_maxmzthruput attribute
caching UFS I/O (Sec. 9.3.3.1)
io_throttle_shift attribute
caching UFS I/O (Sec. 9.3.3.1)
IPC (Sec. 5.4)
See also System V IPC
displaying (Sec. 6.3)
monitoring (Sec. 7.1)
ipcs command
displaying IPC (Sec. 6.3)
monitoring IPC (Sec. 5.4)
monitoring IPC (Sec. 7.1)
ipintrq data structure
checking dropped packets (Sec. 10.2.19)
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. 10.2.19)
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. 6.4.3)
kprofile utility
profiling kernels (Sec. 3.5)
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L
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. 6.5.7)
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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M
malloc function
controlling memory usage (Sec. 11.2.6)
malloc map
increasing (Sec. 6.4.3)
managing memory
paging (Sec. 1.2.2.1)
swapping (Sec. 1.2.2.1)
maxusers attribute
increasing name cache size (Sec. 9.1.1)
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. 9.3.1.7)
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
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. 6.5.5)
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)
displaying (Sec. 9.3.2.3)
hash chain table size (Sec. 9.1.3)
tuning (Sec. 9.1.3)
MFS (Sec. 9.3.1.5)
mount limit (Sec. 9.3.1.7)
migrate command
distributing AdvFS data (Sec. 9.2.2.4)
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
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)
kernels (Sec. 3.5)
LSM (Sec. 8.4.7)
LSM (Sec. 8.4.7)
lsof command (Sec. 11.1)
monitor command (Sec. 3.3)
networks (Sec. 10.1)
open files (Sec. 11.1)
sockets (Sec. 10.1.2)
sys_check (Sec. 4.3)
top command (Sec. 3.3)
top command (Sec. 3.3)
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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N
name_cache_hash_size attribute
controlling name cache (Sec. 9.1.1)
name_cache_valid_time attribute
controlling name cache (Sec. 9.1.1)
NetRAIN
network availability (Sec. 2.6.3)
netstat command
checking for retransmitted packets (Sec. 10.2.13)
displaying dropped packets (Sec. 6.4.3)
monitoring full sockets (Sec. 10.2.17)
monitoring packets (Sec. 10.2.19)
netstat utility
monitoring networks (Sec. 10.1.1)
networks
availability (Sec. 2.6.3)
checking for dropped packets (Sec. 10.2.19)
displaying (Sec. 9.4.1.1)
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)
NetRAIN (Sec. 2.6.3)
NFS limits (Sec. 9.4.2.4)
outgoing connection ports (Sec. 10.2.4)
outgoing connection ports (Sec. 10.2.5)
partial TCP timeout limit (Sec. 10.2.11)
PMTU discovery (Sec. 10.2.6)
preventing dropped packets (Sec. 10.2.19)
socket buffer size (Sec. 10.2.18)
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. 9.4.2.3)
client threads (Sec. 9.4.2.2)
displaying (Sec. 9.4.1.1)
displaying (Sec. 9.4.1.2)
monitoring (Sec. 3.3)
mount options (Sec. 9.4.2.3)
server threads (Sec. 9.4.2.1)
timeout limit (Sec. 9.4.2.4)
tuning guidelines (Sec. 4.2.3)
tuning guidelines (Sec. 9.4.2)
write gathering (Sec. 9.4.2.2)
nfsd daemon (Sec. 9.4.2.1)
nfsiod daemon (Sec. 9.4.2.2)
nfswatch command
monitoring NFS (Sec. 3.3)
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
displaying (Sec. 6.3.1)
page lists
tracking (Sec. 6.1.1)
page outs (Sec. 6.1.4.2)
displaying (Sec. 6.3.1)
page table (Sec. 6.1.3.2)
page-in page fault (Sec. 6.1.3.3)
pages
displaying (Sec. 6.3.1)
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)
displaying (Sec. 6.3.1)
increasing threshold (Sec. 6.5.1)
memory management (Sec. 1.2.2.1)
reclaiming pages (Sec. 6.1)
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)
caching data (Sec. 1.2.2.2)
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 discovery (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)
preventing data loss
AdvFS (Sec. 9.2.2.2)
using RAID (Sec. 9.2.2.1)
prewriting modified pages (Sec. 6.1.4.1)
managing (Sec. 6.5.5)
priorities
changing application (Sec. 7.2.3)
private_cache_percent attribute
reserving cache memory (Sec. 6.1.3.3)
process
resident set size limit (Sec. 6.5.4)
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. 9.4.1.2)
displaying memory usage (Sec. 6.3.2)
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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. 6.5.4)
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. 10.2.18)
scalability (Sec. 1.1)
scalability (Sec. 2.0)
SCSI
bus length (Sec. 1.2.3.2.5)
bus speed (Sec. 1.2.3.2.2)
bus termination (Sec. 1.2.3.2.5)
data path (Sec. 1.2.3.2.1)
extending UltraSCSI bus segments (Sec. 1.2.3.2.4)
parallel (Sec. 1.2.3.2)
transmission method (Sec. 1.2.3.2.3)
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. 6.5.4)
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. 9.2.3.3)
showfile utility
displaying AdvFS file information (Sec. 9.2.3.4)
showfsets utility
displaying fileset information (Sec. 9.2.3.5)
signals (Sec. 5.4)
smooth sync queue (Sec. 9.2.1)
smoothsync_age attribute
caching UFS I/O (Sec. 9.3.3.1)
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. 10.2.18)
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. 9.2.2.5)
swap out (Sec. 6.1.4.3)
swap space (Sec. 6.5.7)
allocation modes (Sec. 2.3.2.2)
asynchronous requests (Sec. 6.5.7)
crash dump space (Sec. 2.3.2.3)
determining requirements (Sec. 2.3.2.3)
displaying (Sec. 6.3.3)
distributing (Sec. 6.2)
I/O queue depth (Sec. 6.1.4.3)
managing (Sec. 6.5.7)
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)
displaying swap space (Sec. 6.3)
displaying swap space (Sec. 6.3.3)
swapping
aggressive (Sec. 6.5.3)
changing rate of (Sec. 6.5.2)
controlling rate of (Sec. 6.1.4.2)
disk space (Sec. 6.3)
impact on performance (Sec. 6.1.4.3)
memory management (Sec. 1.2.2.1)
operation (Sec. 6.1.4.3)
threshold (Sec. 6.1.4)
threshold (Sec. 6.1.4.3)
switchlog command
moving transaction log (Sec. 9.2.2.8)
symmetrical multiprocessing (Sec. 1.2.1)
sync
minimizing impact of (Sec. 6.1.4.1)
synchronous I/O (Sec. 9.2.1)
synchronous requests (Sec. 6.5.7)
synchronous swap buffers (Sec. 6.1.4.3)
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
displaying (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)
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. 1.2.3.2.3)
tuning
address space (Sec. 5.3)
advanced (Sec. 4.5)
application memory (Sec. 11.2.6)
CPUs (Sec. 7.2)
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. 9.4.2)
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)
UBC (Sec. 9.1.2)
UFS (Sec. 9.3.3)
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UBC (Sec. 1.2.2)
UBC (Sec. 6.1)
allocating memory to (Sec. 6.1.2.2)
borrowing threshold (Sec. 6.1.4.2)
displaying (Sec. 6.3)
displaying (Sec. 6.3.4)
displaying pages used by (Sec. 6.3.1)
tuning (Sec. 9.1.2)
UBC LRU page list (Sec. 6.1.1)
ubc_maxborrowpercent attribute
tuning the UBC (Sec. 9.1.2)
ubc_maxdirtywrites
tuning the UBC (Sec. 9.1.2)
ubc_maxdirtywrites attribute
prewriting modified pages (Sec. 6.1.4.1)
prewriting modified pages (Sec. 6.1.4.1)
prewriting pages (Sec. 6.5.5)
ubc_maxpercent attribute
tuning the UBC (Sec. 9.1.2)
ubc_minpercent attribute
tuning the UBC (Sec. 9.1.2)
udp_recvspace attribute
increasing UDP socket buffers (Sec. 10.2.17)
udp_sendspace attribute
increasing UDP socket buffers (Sec. 10.2.17)
uerf command
displaying memory (Sec. 6.3)
UFS
blocks combined for a cluster (Sec. 9.3.1.4)
combining blocks (Sec. 9.3.3.3)
configuration guidelines (Sec. 9.3)
defragmenting (Sec. 9.3.3.4)
delaying cluster writes (Sec. 9.3.3.2)
displaying (Sec. 9.3.2.1)
fragment size (Sec. 9.3.1.1)
fragment size (Sec. 9.3.2.1)
inode density (Sec. 9.3.1.2)
memory file system (MFS) (Sec. 9.3.1.5)
monitoring (Sec. 9.3.2.2)
mount limit (Sec. 9.3.1.7)
quotas (Sec. 9.3.1.6)
sequential block allocation (Sec. 9.3.1.3)
smoothsync (Sec. 9.3.3.1)
tuning guidelines (Sec. 9.3.3)
ufs_clusterstats structure
displaying UFS clustering statistics (Sec. 9.3.2.2)
ufs_getapage_stats structure
displaying the UBC (Sec. 6.3.4)
displaying 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
displaying (Sec. 6.3.1)
monitoring (Sec. 7.1.2)
monitoring (Sec. 8.3)
using RAID
preventing data loss (Sec. 9.2.2.1)
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virtual address space (Sec. 6.1.3.1)
virtual address space (Sec. 6.1.3.1)
displaying size of (Sec. 6.3.2)
virtual memory
accessing addresses (Sec. 6.1.3.3)
address space (Sec. 6.1.3.1)
aggressive swapping (Sec. 6.5.3)
application memory requirements (Sec. 11.2.6)
displaying (Sec. 6.3.1)
displaying (Sec. 6.3.2)
displaying pages used by (Sec. 6.3.1)
distribution of (Sec. 1.2.2)
distribution of (Sec. 6.1)
function of (Sec. 6.1)
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
displaying dropped packets (Sec. 6.4.3)
displaying the CPU (Sec. 6.3)
displaying virtual memory (Sec. 6.3)
displaying virtual memory (Sec. 6.3.1)
monitoring the CPU (Sec. 7.1.2)
tracking page lists (Sec. 6.1.1)
vm_aggressive_swap attribute
enabling aggressive swapping (Sec. 6.5.3)
vm_asyncswapbuffers attribute
controlling swap I/O queue depth (Sec. 6.1.4.3)
managing swap space (Sec. 6.5.7)
vm_max_rdpgio_kluster attribute
increasing page-in cluster size (Sec. 6.5.6)
vm_max_wrpgio_kluster attribute
controlling page-out cluster size (Sec. 6.5.6)
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)
setting free list minimum (Sec. 6.1.4)
vm_page_free_optimal attribute
managing rate of swapping (Sec. 6.5.2)
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)
managing rate of swapping (Sec. 6.5.2)
setting paging threshold (Sec. 6.1.4)
vm_page_prewrite_target attribute
prewriting modified pages (Sec. 6.1.4.1)
prewriting pages (Sec. 6.5.5)
vm_rss_block_target attribute
setting free page threshold for resident set limit (Sec. 6.5.4)
vm_rss_maxpercent attribute
setting resident set limit (Sec. 6.5.4)
vm_rss_wakeup_target attribute
setting free page threshold for resident set limit (Sec. 6.5.4)
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)
managing swap space (Sec. 6.5.7)
vm_ubcdirtypercent attribute
prewriting pages (Sec. 6.1.4.1)
prewriting pages (Sec. 6.5.5)
tuning the UBC (Sec. 9.1.2)
vm_ubcpagesteal attribute
tuning the UBC (Sec. 9.1.2)
vm_ubcseqpercent attribute
tuning the UBC (Sec. 9.1.2)
vm_ubcseqstartpercent attribute
tuning the UBC (Sec. 9.1.2)
vnodes
definition (Sec. 5.5.1)
vnode_age attribute
controlling name cache (Sec. 9.1.1)
vnode_deallocation_enable attribute
controlling name cache (Sec. 9.1.1)
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)
displaying (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)