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A June 2003 article that first gives an overview of libumem and then insists on the debugging features of the userland memory allocator. Also includes some examples on how to find memory leaks. Although libumem first appeared on Solaris 9 Update 3, many developers will only discover it when migrating to Solaris 10.

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Note : libumem has recently been ported to Linux & Windows. See the announcement & the project page in Sourceforge.

Found on the Solaris Internals website, this is a draft of one of the upcoming chapters of the 2nd edition of the Solaris Internals famous book.

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T: OpenSolaris, Solaris 10, MDB

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The three areas covered by the author are thread scheduling, memory management and filesystems. Quite interesting to find out how things are done in other Unix flavours.

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A good technical Infodoc that explains why the “wait for i/o” column always shows 0 under Solaris 10.

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Interesting Blueprints (written by Richard Mc Dougall) that explain in which circumstances you are likely to benefit from enlarging the size of memory pages. Includes an explanation of Translation Lookup Buffers (TLB) and various other components of the memory management kernel subsystem.

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No real details here but a bunch of slides that go through the numerous performance improvements of Solaris 10. Includes some details in Networking, libumem, platform,…

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