Solaris Performance and Tools: DTrace and MDB Techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris

After seeing Mr. Mauro speak and his host mentioned his book in glowing terms I bought it almost out of curiosity. I'm sure glad I did. This will be a must have for those who want to be "The Man" in any Solaris shop. I wouldn't recommend for any new admins or programmers as the material can get a little esoteric and the explanations are targeted at those with a little depth/experience. Very well written and topics are well demonstrated.I quickly put much of my new understanding to work on the job to great effect.

If you need to dig into the internals of Solaris for any reason, this book is a must have, especially for the dtrace and mdb tools which are very powerful but powerfully complex. I use the book as a constant reference for mdb.I didn't rate it the highest though because it is somewhat inconsistent in the level of explanation offered. Some topics explained thoroughly and others leave one wanting a better explanation.Nevertheless, it's the only resource of it's kind.

As a Unix SA, I would highly recommend this.

I been working with solaris for the last 10 years. Some times we had to struggle with performance monitoring and tuning on our highend servers. I think this book gives an excellent opportunity to look back on our architecture and design for the major database and application systems.

I found this to be one of the best manuals for dtrace, iostat and mdb that I have ever seen. Not only were there good examples but there were lots of them. Why can't these people write the man pages in Solaris?

I bought it for my company. It's really useful for performance engineer, especially for performance engineer in Sun microsystem. I'm learning.

A surprisingly good book from Sun considering how poorly I think of mdb as a development tool. If you are forced to work with Solaris then this is a must have for your bookshelf.

A fantastic guidebook for mdb and dtrace.

A really useful book - one slight quibble is that the dtrace scripts often dont work

Bon état.

perfect