Solaris Tunable Parameters Reference Manual - SCN Research

How This Book Is Organized
The following table describes the chapters and appendixes in this book.
Chapter
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Appendix A
Appendix B
Description
An overview of tuning a Solaris system. Also provides a
description of the format used in the book to describe the
kernel tunables.
A description of Solaris kernel tunables such as kernel
memory, file system, process size, and paging parameters.
A description of NFS tunables such as caching symbolic
links, dynamic retransmission, and RPC security
parameters.
A description of TCP/IP tunables such as IP forwarding,
source routing, and buffer-sizing parameters.
A description of tunable parameters for the Network Cache
and Accelerator (NCA).
A description of parameters used to set default values of
certain system facilities. Changes are made by modifying
files in the /etc/default directory.
A history of parameters that have changed or are now
obsolete.
A history of this manual’s revisions including the current
Solaris release.
Related Books
The following books provide background material that might be useful when you tune
Solaris systems.
■
Configuration and Capacity Planning for Solaris Servers by Brian L. Wong, Sun
Microsystems Press, ISBN 0-13-349952–9
■ NFS Illustrated by Brent Callaghan, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-32570-5
■
Resource Management by Richard McDougall, Adrian Cockcroft, Evert
Hoogendoorn, Enrique Vargas, Tom Bialaski, Sun Microsystems Press, ISBN
0-13-025855-5
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