BayLISA March General Meeting - Thursday March 15th 2007

Mon Mar 12 14:03:35 PDT 2007

(details also available at http://www.baylisa.org/)

The March General meeting will be held at our usual location at Yahoo Sunnyvale
Location: Yahoo
Classroom 9, Building E
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA
94089

Time: 7:00-10:00pm

Directions to Yahoo are available at 
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/press/address.cfm
Follow these directions *except* instead of turning right into Bldg. D,
you should turn left into Bldg. E

   Solaris Performance & Tools Performance,
   Observability & Debugging in Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris

   Russell Blaine - Sun Microsystems

   Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris offer a wealth of bundled tools for understanding
   system and application performance and behaviour. Enhancements to existing
   tools, such as the proc(1) tools and mdb(1), and the new Solaris Dynamic
   Tracing facility, DTrace, combined with other utilities (kstat, cpustat,
   vmstat, etc) provide a rich environment for observability and debugging.

   In this session, we will discuss methodologies for understanding application
   and system performance, in terms of which tools to apply, how and when to use
   them, and the information they can provide.

   from the techdays bio page:
   http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/marketing/events/techdays/bios/

   Russell Blaine has been a developer in the Solaris Kernel group at Sun for
   six years. His areas of expertise include virtualization technologies,
   Solaris on x86 and AMD64, CPU performance counters, system call interfaces,
   and interrupt management. He most recently completed work on the BrandZ
   project, bringing linux emulation to Solaris Zones. He came to Sun in 2000
   after receiving a BSE in Computer Science from Princeton University.