For developers who want to design for performance and administrators who need to improve performance, this book is an indispensable reference. It covers SPARC systems and peripherals and the latest release of Solaris (2.6). It includes detailed configuration and performance information not available anywhere else, plus clear explanations of how to use system monitoring tools.
ADRIAN COCKCROFT has a physics degree, worked as a software engineer, then joined Sun in the United Kingdom in 1988. He relocated to the U.S. between 1993 and 1996, and now lives in the UK. He tele-works to the U.S. based Enterprise Engineering group as Sun's performance management specialist. Since 1995 he has written a monthly Performance Q&A column for SunWorld Online. Contact him at Adrian.Cockcroft@Sun.COM
RICHARD PETTIT is the Chief Performance Architect for Resolute Software, Inc. (http://www.resolute.com). He has been involved in all levels of performance analysis and tuning for 8 of his 14 years of UNIX systems experience. Rich can be reached at richp@resolute.com