Solaris internals: Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris kernel architecture

Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro

Sun Microsystems Press/Prentice Hall, 2007 - 1020 pages

"The Solaristrade;Internals volumes are simply the best and most comprehensive treatment of the Solaris (and OpenSolaris) Operating Environment. Any person using Solaris--in any capacity--would be remiss not to include these two new volumes in their personal library. With advanced observability tools in Solaris (likeDTrace), you will more often find yourself in what was previously unchartable territory. Solaristrade; Internals,Second Edition, provides us a fantastic means to be able to quickly understand these systems and further explore the Solaris architecture--especially when coupled with OpenSolaris source availability."--Jarod Jenson, chief systems architect, Aeysis"The Solaristrade; Internals volumes by Jim Mauro and Richard McDougall must be on your bookshelf if you are interested in in-depth knowledge of Solaris operating system internals and architecture. As a senior Unix engineer for many years, I found the first edition of Solaristrade; Internals the only fully comprehensive source for kernel developers, systems programmers, and systems administrators. The new second edition, with the companion performance and debugging book, is an indispensable reference set, containing many useful and practical explanations of Solaris and its underlying subsystems, including tools and methods for observing and analyzing any system running Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris."--Marc Strahl, senior UNIX engineer Solaristrade; Internals, Second Edition, describes the algorithms and data structures of all the major subsystems in the Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris kernels. The text has been extensively revised since the first edition, with more than 600 pages of new material. Integrated Solaris tools and utilities, including DTrace, MDB, kstat, and the process tools, are used throughout to illustrate how the reader can observe the Solaris kernel in action. The companion volume, Solaristrade; Performance and Tools, extends the examples contained here, and expands the scope to performance and behavior analysis. Coverage includes: Virtual and physical memory Processes, threads, and scheduling File system framework and UFS implementation Networking: TCP/IP implementation Resource management facilities and zones The Solaristrade; Internals volumes make a superb reference for anyone using Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris.

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Contents

• Foreword: xxvii
• Projects Tasks and Resource Controls 415: xxxiii
• About the Authors: xxxvii

About the author

Richard McDougall is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, specializing in operating systems technology and systems performance.

Jim Mauro is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Performance, Architecture, and Applications Engineering group at Sun Microsystems, where his most recent efforts have focused on Solaris performance on Opteron platforms.

Mauro has 20 years of industry experience with UNIX systems. He is a senior engineer in the Performance Applications Engineering group at Sun Microsystems. When Jim is not wrestling with his two sons, his house, or his yard, he works on systems and applications availability and resource management-related projects for Sun.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Solaris internals: Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris kernel architecture; Solaris Series; Safari Books Online
• Authors: Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro
• Edition: 2, illustrated
• Publisher: Sun Microsystems Press/Prentice Hall, 2007
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Nov 16, 2007
• ISBN: 0131482092, 9780131482098
• Length: 1020 pages
• Subjects: Computers / General; Computers / Operating Systems / General; Computers / Operating Systems / UNIX; Electronic books; Operating systems (Computers); Solaris (Computer file)