Solaris Troubleshooting and Performance Tuning
These pages have been updated for Solaris 10. While some information is
included for versions of Solaris back to 2.5.1 (when these pages were first
written), some information for older versions of Solaris has been
discarded where it interfered with the clarity of presentation. The
focus of these pages is on Solaris 8-10.
The purpose of these pages is to provide a summary of tools and techniques
available to troubleshoot problems on the Solaris platform. This
collection reflects publicly-available information from Sun documentation,
books on Solaris administration, web-based resources and magazine
articles. Source documents are referenced on several of the included
pages. (Particularly outstanding references may be found at the bottom
of this page.)
The content on these pages is maintained by Scott Cromar.
(Used with permission.) Comments on the contents of this page may be
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The Solaris Troubleshooting Blog. Thank you to the people who have
pointed out erroneous or poorly presented information.
General Troubleshooting
Files
Hardware
Performance
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User Environment
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System Monitoring Commands
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Outstanding sources of additional information include:
- The Sun documentation web site. (Some of the books are excellent. Frustration with some of the others led me to create these pages.)
- Solaris Internals and Solaris Performance and Tools by McDougall, Mauro and Gregg. (Oct 2006. Prentice Hall.) (The 2000 edition was instrumental in the Solaris 7 update of these pages. The 2006 edition has been an important resource for the Solaris 10 update.)
- Sun Performance and Tuning--Java and the Internet by Cockroft. (April 1998. Prentice Hall.) (The 1994 edition was a primary source for the original 1997 version of these pages.)
- Unix Internals--The New Frontiers by Vahalia. (1996. Prentice Hall.) (This is, bar none, the best treatment of Unix internals I have ever read. This and the 1994 Cockroft were the original sources for these pages. The publisher keeps promising an update, and I'm waiting with bated breath.)
- Panic! UNIX System Crash Dump Analysis by Drake and Brown. (May 1995. Prentice Hall.) (The only comprehensible guide for
adb ever written. I just wish they would update the darn thing! Or that Sun would hire them to re-write their debugger manual...)
- SysAdmin and Unix Review Magazines. (Specific articles are referenced in several of these pages. Some key sections owe a lot to the editors who keep putting out concise, clearly written, up-to-date articles on Solaris topics. Some of the most useful sections in the Mauro and Cockroft books first appeared in these magazines. The subscriptions are well worth the cost.)
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