Solaris性能与工具

Foreword xxi

Preface

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

PART ONE: Observability Methods

Chapter 1 Introduction to Observability Tools

1.1 Observability Tools

1.2 Drill-Down Analysis

1.3 About Part One

Chapter 2: CPUs

2.1 Tools for CPU Analysis

2.2 vmstat Tool

2.3 CPU Utilization

2.4 CPU Saturation

2.5 psrinfo Command

2.6 uptime Command

2.7 sar Command

2.8 Clock Tick Woes

2.9 mpstat Command

2.10 Who Is Using the CPU?

2.11 CPU Run Queue Latency

2.12 CPU Statistics Internals

2.13 Using DTrace to Explain Events from Performance Tools

2.14 DTrace Versions of runq-sz, %runocc

2.15 DTrace Probes for CPU States

Chapter 3: Processes

3.1 Tools for Process Analysis

3.2 Process Statistics Summary: prstat

3.3 Process Status: ps

3.4 Tools for Listing and Controlling Processes

3.5 Process Introspection Commands

3.6 Examining User-Level Locks in a Process

3.7 Tracing Processes

3.8 Java Processes

Chapter 4: Disk Behavior and Analysis

4.1 Terms for Disk Analysis

4.2 Random vs. Sequential I/O

4.3 Storage Arrays

4.4 Sector Zoning

4.5 Max I/O Size

4.6 iostat Utility

4.7 Disk Utilization

4.8 Disk Saturation

4.9 Disk Throughput

4.10 iostat Reference

4.11 Reading iostat

4.12 iostat Internals

4.13 sar -d

4.14 Trace Normal Form (TNF) Tracing for I/O

4.15 DTrace for I/O

4.16 Disk I/O Time

4.17 DTraceToolkit Commands

4.18 DTraceTazTool

Chapter 5: File Systems

5.1 Layers of File System and I/O

5.2 Observing Physical I/O

5.3 File System Latency

5.4 Causes of Read/Write File System Latency

5.5 Observing File System “Top End” Activity

5.6 File System Caches

5.7 NFS Statistics

Chapter 6: Memory

6.1 Tools for Memory Analysis

6.2 vmstat(1M) Command

6.3 Types of Paging

6.4 Physical Memory Allocation

6.5 Relieving Memory Pressure

6.6 Scan Rate as a Memory Health Indicator

6.7 Process Virtual and Resident Set Size

6.8 Using pmap to Inspect Process Memory Usage

6.9 Calculating Process Memory Usage with ps and pmap

6.10 Displaying Page-Size Information with pmap

6.11 Using DTrace for Memory Analysis

6.12 Obtaining Memory Kstats

6.13 Using the Perl Kstat API to Look at Memory Statistics

6.14 System Memory Allocation Kstats

6.15 Kernel Memory with kstat

6.16 System Paging Kstats

6.17 Observing MMU Performance Impact with trapstat

6.18 Swap Space

Chapter 7: Networks

7.1 Terms for Network Analysis

7.2 Packets Are Not Bytes

7.3 Network Utilization

7.4 Network Saturation

7.5 Network Errors

7.6 Misconfigurations

7.7 Systemwide Statistics

7.8 Per-Process Network Statistics

7.9 TCP Statistics

7.10 IP Statistics

7.11 ICMP Statistics

Chapter 8: Performance Counters

8.1 Introducing CPU Caches

8.2 cpustat Command

8.3 cputrack Command

8.4 busstat Command

Chapter 9: Kernel Monitoring

9.1 Tools for Kernel Monitoring

9.2 Profiling the Kernel and Drivers

9.3 Analyzing Kernel Locks

9.4 DTrace lockstat Provider

9.5 DTrace Kernel Profiling

9.6 Interrupt Statistics: vmstat -i

9.7 Interrupt Analysis: intrstat

PART TWO: Observability Infrastructure

Chapter 10: Dynamic Tracing

10.1 Introduction to DTrace

10.2 The Basics

10.3 Inspecting Java Applications with DTrace

10.4 DTrace Architecture

10.5 Summary

10.6 Probe Reference

10.7 MDB Reference

Chapter 11: Kernel Statistics

11.1 C-Level Kstat Interface

11.2 Command-Line Interface

11.3 Using Perl to Access kstats

11.4 Snooping a Program’s kstat Use with DTrace

11.5 Adding Statistics to the Solaris Kernel

11.6 Additional Information

PART THREE: Debugging

Chapter 12: The Modular Debugger

12.1 Introduction to the Modular Debugger

12.2 MDB Concepts

Chapter 13: An MDB Tutorial 335

13.1 Invoking MDB 335

13.2 MDB Command Syntax 336

13.3 Working with Debugging Targets

13.4 GDB-to-MDB Reference

13.5 dcmd and Walker Reference

Chapter 14: Debugging Kernels

14.1 Working with Kernel Cores

14.2 Examining User Process Stacks within a Kernel Image

14.3 Switching MDB to Debug a Specific Process

14.4 kmdb, the Kernel Modular Debugger

14.5 Kernel Built-In MDB dcmds

APPENDICES

Appendix A Tunables and Settings

Appendix B DTrace One-Liners

Appendix C Java DTrace Scripts

Appendix D Sample Perl Kstat Utilities

Bibliography

Index

《Solaris性能与工具（英文版）》全面介绍了Solaris 10和OpenSolaris中的强大工具，包括Solaris动态跟踪工具、DTrace和MDB（模块调试器）。书中提供了理解性能和行为的系统方法，包括
● 分析内核和应用程序的CPU利用率，包括读取和理解硬件计数器。
● 进程级资源使用和概要描述。
● 磁盘IO行为和分析。
● 系统和应用程序级的内存使用。
● 网络性能。
● 内核监视和概要描述，以及收集内核统计数据。
● 使用DTrace提供者和聚集。
● MDB命令和完整的MDB指南。
对任何水平的Solaris 10和OpenSolaris用户来说，《Solaris性能与工具（英文版）》和《Solaris内核结构》都极具参考价值。