Oracle Solaris 10 Performance Management

This lesson explains the general goals and agenda of the course.

Lesson Topics:

• Goals

• Agenda

• Introductions

• Your Learning Centre

This lesson describes the principals, processes and analysis strategy involved in performance management on the Oracle Solaris 10 OS.

Lesson Topics:

• Introduction to Performance Management

• Performance Analysis Concepts

• Monitoring Tools in Oracle Solaris 10

• Practice:

• Find useful kstat statistics

• Find what facility a given command is based on

This lesson describes the use of kstat tools in the identification of performance problems.

Lesson Topics:

• The sar Tool

• The kstat Tool

• The vmstat Tool

• Practice:

• The iostat Tool

• Use the vmstat, sar, and mpstat commands

• The mpstat Tool

• Use the iostat command

• The netstat Tool

• Use the kstat utilities

• The nfsstat Tool

This lesson describes the use of the procfs monitoring tools.

Lesson Topics:

• Introduction to procfsBased Tools

• Other Significant Tools

• The ps Command

• Practice:

• The prstat(1) Utility

• Use the ps and prstat commands

• The truss(1) Utility

• Use the Solaris Studio collect(1) and analyzer utilities

This lesson describes the architecture, advantages and usage of DTrace commands.

Lesson Topics:

• Introduction to DTrace

• Probe Clauses

• DTrace Providers

• DTrace Program or Script

• Probe Descriptions

• DTrace Toolkit

• Action Statements and Predicates

• DTrace Visualization Tool

• DTrace Variables

• Practice:

• DTrace Aggregations

• Use, modify, and construct some simple D programs to explore some of the capabilities of DTrace

This lesson describes the use of tools associated with the CPU and cache memory.

Lesson Topics:

• The swap utility

• Practice:

• CPU Performance Counters

• Interpret the output of the swap command

• The mdb(1) Utility

• Use cpustat to view the cpc counters

• The Solaris Studio dbx(1) Utility

• Use mdb to view kernel parameters

• Use Solaris Studio dbx to test a common application

This lesson describes the nature and tuning capabilities of processes and threads.

Lesson Topics:

• Introduction to Operating System Theory

• Practice:

• Process Concepts

• Examine process life cycles by using truss

• Threads and Locking

• Use the lockstat command

• Process-Related Tunable Parameters and Process Limits

• Use the lockstat provider in DTrace

• Check tunable parameters with mdb

• Use plockstat(1M) and the plockstat provider in DTrace

This lesson describes the memory components of the Oracle Solaris OS.

Lesson Topics:

• Memory Concepts

• Practice:

• Swapping, Paging, and Caching

• Monitor memory consumption

• Monitor memory access error with the Solaris Studio discover utility (optional)

• Monitor memory consumption with the DTrace Toolkit

This lesson describes the nature, usage and configuration of system caches and buses.

Lesson Topics:

• Cache Concepts

• Practice:

• The prtdiag(1M) Command

• Calculate the cache-hit rate

• The prtconf(1M) Command

• Observe file system caching

• The cputrack(1M) Command

• Calculate the CPI

This lesson describes how to control and monitor CPUs through the use of processor sets.

Lesson Topics:

• Thread states

• Practice:

• Scheduling classes

• Observe changes in the priority of a running process

• CPU and processor sets

• Run a process in the RT class

• DTrace and other resource controls

• Create and managing processor sets

• CMT

• Change the default scheduling class to FSS

• Locate the functions fault1 is calling

• Determine CPU information and activity by using DTrace Toolkit scripts

This lesson describes the nature and implementation of the UFS and ZFS file systems.

Lesson Topics:

• UFS and related concepts

• Practice:

• RAID

• View the characteristics of the UFS on a disk

• ZFS and related concepts

• Work with ZFS

• Test the disk

• Use the tools to analyse an unknown load

This lesson describes the nature, configuration and monitoring of network utilisation.

Lesson Topics:

• Network Concepts

• Practice:

• Monitoring Network Performance

• Monitor network performance

• TCP/IP

• Determine the status of a client system

• Test the reliability of data packets

• Send a data packet to the client system

• Capture data packets and save the information in a file

• Trace the route of the data packet to the destination system

This lesson describes the steps for maintaining and monitoring system performance.

Lesson Topics:

• Performance Analysis Approach

• Practice:

• Performance Analysis Checklist

• View and set the values of tuning parameters

• Utilize resource management

This lesson describes the different aspects of planning and conducting performance testing.

Lesson Topics:

• Types of Performance Testing and Benchmarks

• Performance Testing Tools