Book Excerpt: Chapter 3, Processes Monitoring process activity is a routine task during the administration of systems. Fortunately, a large number of tools examine process details, most of which make use of procfs. Many of these tools are suitable for troubleshooting application problems and for analyzing performance. 'Chapter 3, Processes' as PDF (reprinted with permission here).

Feb 10, 2005 - Solaris/UNIX environments will learn basic tools for characterizing 75% of normal everyday performance bottlenecks. The goal of the paper is to give the reader of how to leverage some of these new features. Set of command line tools that a Solaris novice can use to understand 80-90% of the basic. Chapter 3, Processes, from the new Solaris Performance and Tools book is excerpted here. Authors Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro, and Brendan Gregg discuss tools that examine process details.

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