All...
Some while ago I posted a request for a solaris equivalent of the tru64 unix
tools dxterneltuner or sysconfig for checking kernel parameter settings.
Many thanks for all who replied:
Rainer_Freis_at_santix.de
Stuart Whitby [swhitby_at_legato.com]
jreed_at_wukon.appliedtheory.com
Larye D. Parkins [larye_at_selway.umt.edu]
Aleksey Tsalolikhin [atsaloli_at_earthlink.net]
Kernel parameters
=================
man -s4 system
man modinfo
Probably the one you're after is sysdef.
"ndd" works to view tcpip parameters. For others, I think a combination of
modload and sysdef will give you info. I've only played with it a bit. I do
know that if the module
that the parameters refer to has not been loaded since boot you won't see
the new values - that's why you use the modload command first.
Here is some useful data on tuning the TCP/IP stack parameters (what I have
experience with under Solaris).
http://www.rvs.uni-hannover.de/people/voeckler/tune/EN/tune.html
Excellent book:
===============
"Sun Performance and Tuning" from Adrian Cockcroft (also includes tuneable
kernel parameters and their default values.
Always run catman once new manual pages are installed - man -k is second
only to the wheel (the first users of the wheel complained about the
documentation too).
Check out
http://docs.sun.com/ab2
Try docs.sun.com. Or get an account on sunsolve.sun.com. Both are
really good sysadmin resources for Sun systems. There's also a
Solaris admin mailing list in a similar vein to this one. Send mail
to majordomo_at_sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu with "subscribe sun-managers"
in the body. Searching sunworld.com has some pretty good articles
as well, and searchable archives.
The red book (Nemeth) is quite good, and it does cover Solaris in addition
to the other OSes. Anything by Cockroft is good too, for performance
tuning Solaris boxes.
The original post is shown at the end of this message.
Regards - Tony
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Apologies for this nubie question. I am a TRU64'er converting to Solaris...
On a TRU64 box, there is an X utility called 'dxkerneltuner' and a command
line equivalent called 'sysconfig' which you can use to view the setting of
kernel parameters.
1. What is the equivalent on a Solaris-7 box? I have checked the
/etc/system file for absolute changes to parameters but don't know how to
query the kernel for the value of parameters not currently listed in this
file (e.g.., SEMMNI).
2. Is this stuff (tuning/kernel parameters and how you change them etc)
documented anywhere on the web. I don't have any SOLARIS paper
documentation.
3. Can anybody recommend any good Solaris admin books? I am aware of the
O'Reilly series but don't know if people think any other publications are
better.
Many thanks in advance.
Received on Thu Jul 27 2000 - 07:52:35 NZST