Index

The parenthesized number on an index entry indicates the location of the entry within the book. Entries before the first numbered section in a chapter are identified as Sec. n.0.


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A

access patterns
        random (Sec. 1.2)
        sequential (Sec. 1.2)

accounting
        monitoring resources (Sec. 2.2.4)

active page list (Sec. 12.1.1)
        displaying (Sec. 12.3.1)

adaptive RAID3/5 (Sec. 1.3.1)

administering
        CPU resources (Sec. 13.2.2)

Advanced File System
        See AdvFS

AdvFS
        access structure tuning (Sec. 11.1.5)
        balancing volumes (Sec. 11.2.1.4)
        blocking queue (Sec. 11.2.3)
        configuration guidelines (Sec. 11.2.1)
        consol queue (Sec. 11.2.3)
        defragmenting file domains (Sec. 11.2.1.6)
        device queue (Sec. 11.2.3)
        displaying (Sec. 11.2.2)
        displaying (Sec. 11.2.2.1)
        displaying (Sec. 11.2.2.2)
        displaying (Sec. 11.2.2.3)
        displaying (Sec. 11.2.2.4)
        displaying (Sec. 11.2.2.5)
        displaying extent map (Sec. 11.2.2.4)
        distributing data (Sec. 11.2.1.4)
        distributing data (Sec. 11.2.1.5)
        enabling direct I/O (Sec. 11.2.1.3)
        flushing queue (Sec. 11.2.3)
        I/O queues (Sec. 11.2.3)
        lazy queue (Sec. 11.2.3)
        managing files with (Sec. 11.2)
        moving transaction log (Sec. 11.2.1.8)
        preventing data loss (Sec. 11.2.1.2)
        ready queue (Sec. 11.2.3)
        smooth sync queue (Sec. 11.2.3)
        striping files (Sec. 11.2.1.5)
        transfer size (Sec. 11.2.1.7)
        using UBC (Sec. 1.5.1)
        wait queue (Sec. 11.2.3)

AdvfsAccessMaxPercent attribute
        controlling memory reserved for access structure (Sec. 11.1.5)

advfsd daemon
        stopping (Sec. 13.2.5)

advfsstat command
        displaying AdvFS statistics (Sec. 11.2.2.1)

AdvfsSyncMmapPages attribute
        controlling memory-mapped pages (Sec. 4.4.2)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.2)

advscan command
        displaying file domain location (Sec. 11.2.2.2)

aio_task_max_num attribute
        modifying the AIO requests (Sec. 4.4.7)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.7)

anon_rss_enforce attribute
        limiting resident set size (Sec. 12.5.4)

Application Manager
        class scheduler (Sec. 13.2.2.1.2)

applications
        address space (Sec. 8.3)
        characteristics (Sec. 1.8)
        compilers (Sec. 7.1.2)
        CPU and memory statistics (Sec. 13.1)
        debugging (Sec. 2.6)
        debugging (Sec. 2.6)
        debugging (Sec. 2.6)
        displaying (Sec. 12.3.2)
        displaying (Sec. 12.3.2)
        granularity hints (Sec. 12.6.2)
        improving performance (Sec. 7.0)
        memory locking (Sec. 7.1.7)
        memory requirements (Sec. 7.1.6)
        memory usage (Sec. 12.4)
        parallelism (Sec. 7.1.3)
        patches (Sec. 7.1.1)
        priorities (Sec. 13.2.3)
        process resources (Sec. 8.1)
        profiling (Sec. 2.6)
        profiling (Sec. 2.6)
        resident set size (Sec. 12.3.2)
        shared libraries (Sec. 7.1.5)
        tuning Internet servers (Sec. 6.0)
        tuning network file systems (Sec. 5.0)
        tuning Oracle (Sec. 4.0)
        virtual address space (Sec. 12.1.3.1)
        virtual address space (Sec. 12.3.2)

arbitrated loop
        characteristics (Sec. 1.3.3.1.3)
        compared with fabric topology (Sec. 1.3.3.2)

asynchronous I/O (Sec. 11.2.3)

asynchronous swap buffers (Sec. 12.1.4.3)

at command
        scheduling applications (Sec. 13.2.4)

atom toolkit
        profiling applications (Sec. 2.6)

attributes
        displaying values (Sec. 3.2)
        modifying AdvFS (Sec. 4.4.2)
        modifying generic (Sec. 6.3)
        modifying Internet (Sec. 6.3.1)
        modifying Internet subsystem (Sec. 4.4.5)
        modifying Internet subsystem (Sec. 6.2)
        modifying interprocess communiction (Sec. 4.4.4)
        modifying Memory Channel (Sec. 4.4.9)
        modifying network (Sec. 6.3.2.9)
        modifying NFS client side (Sec. 5.7.1)
        modifying NFS server side (Sec. 5.6.1)
        modifying process (Sec. 6.2.1.3)
        modifying process subsystem (Sec. 4.4.6)
        modifying real-time (Sec. 4.4.7)
        modifying reliable datagram (Sec. 4.4.8)
        modifying socket (Sec. 6.2.2.5)
        modifying socket subsystem (Sec. 6.3.3.3)
        modifying the current value (Sec. 3.3.1)
        modifying the permanent value (Sec. 3.3.1)
        modifying virtual file system (Sec. 4.4.3)
        modifying virtual memory (Sec. 4.4.1)
        modifying virtual memory (Sec. 6.3.4)
        name change (Sec. 6.0)
        operating system support (Sec. 3.0)
        setting limits on system resources (Sec. 6.2.2)

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B

balance command
        distributing AdvFS data (Sec. 11.2.1.4)

bandwidth (Sec. 1.2)

batch command
        scheduling applications (Sec. 13.2.4)

big pages memory (Sec. 12.7)

bio_stats structure
        displaying (Sec. 11.3.2.3)

blocking queue (Sec. 11.2.3)

bottleneck (Sec. 1.2)

bufcache attribute
        controlling buffer cache size (Sec. 11.1.4)

buffer_hash_size attribute
        controlling table size (Sec. 11.1.4)

buses
        distributing data (Sec. 9.1)
        length (Sec. 1.3.2.5)
        speed (Sec. 1.3.2.2)
        termination (Sec. 1.3.2.5)

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C

cache access times (Sec. 1.7)

caching data
        physical memory (Sec. 1.6.2)

CAM
        monitoring (Sec. 9.5)
        tuning (Sec. 9.5)

cam_ccb_increment attribute
        tuning CAM (Sec. 9.5)

cam_ccb_low_water attribute
        tuning CAM (Sec. 9.5)

cam_ccb_pool_size attribute
        tuning CAM (Sec. 9.5)

chfile command
        enabling data logging (Sec. 11.2.1.2)
        preventing data writes (Sec. 11.2.1.2)

chvol command
        modifying I/O transfer size (Sec. 11.2.1.7)

class scheduler (Sec. 13.2.2)
class scheduler (Sec. 13.2.2.1)
        adding class members (Sec. 13.2.2.4.4)
        CDE (Sec. 13.2.2.1.2)
        changing priority (Sec. 13.2.2.4.6)
        class_admin (Sec. 13.2.2)
        class_admin (Sec. 13.2.2.3)
        class_scheduling (Sec. 13.2.2)
        configuring (Sec. 13.2.2.3)
        creating classes (Sec. 13.2.2.4)
        daemon (Sec. 13.2.2.4.3)
        deleting class members (Sec. 13.2.2.4.5)
        destroying a class (Sec. 13.2.2.4.6)
        disabling (Sec. 13.2.2.4.3)
        enabling (Sec. 13.2.2.4.3)
        GID (Sec. 13.2.2.1)
        GID (Sec. 13.2.2.1)
        GID (Sec. 13.2.2.4.2)
        graphical user interface (Sec. 13.2.2.6)
        identifier types (Sec. 13.2.2.4.2)
        identifier types (Sec. 13.2.2.4.2)
        invoking (Sec. 13.2.2.1.2)
        loading databases (Sec. 13.2.2.4.6)
        managing classes (Sec. 13.2.2.4)
        nice command (Sec. 13.2.2.1.1)
        PGID (Sec. 13.2.2.1)
        PID (Sec. 13.2.2.1)
        planning (Sec. 13.2.2.2)
        process identifiers (Sec. 13.2.2.4.2)
        runclass command (Sec. 13.2.2)
        runclass command (Sec. 13.2.2.5)
        SESS (Sec. 13.2.2.1)
        SysMan Menu (Sec. 13.2.2.1.2)
        UID (Sec. 13.2.2.1)
        UID (Sec. 13.2.2.4.2)

class_admin (Sec. 13.2.2)
        administering (Sec. 13.2.2.4)
        using (Sec. 13.2.2.3)

client
        transmitting (Sec. 5.7.1.2)

cluster_maxcontig kernel variable
        increasing blocks (Sec. 11.3.3.3)

collect utility
        automatically start on reboot (Sec. 2.3.2.1)
        gathering system information (Sec. 2.3.2)
        plotting collect datafiles (Sec. 2.3.2.2)

Common Access Method
        See also CAM

Compaq Analyze (CA)
        monitoring system events (Sec. 2.2)

Compaq Analyze
        monitoring system events (Sec. 2.2.3)

Compaq Continuous Profiling Infrastructure
        monitoring CPU cycles (Sec. 6.2)

configuration
        hardware (Sec. 1.1.1)
        NFS (Sec. 5.4)
        sys_check utility (Sec. 2.3.3)

copy-on-write page fault (Sec. 12.1.3.3)

CPI
        See also Compaq Continuous Profiling Infrastructure

CPU
        adding processors (Sec. 13.2.1)
        administering resources (Sec. 13.2.2)
        displaying (Sec. 12.3.1)
        displaying (Sec. 12.3.2)
        improving performance (Sec. 13.2)
        internal caches (Sec. 1.7)
        monitoring (Sec. 13.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 13.1.2)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.2.1)
        scheduling jobs (Sec. 13.2.4)
        using hardware RAID (Sec. 13.2.6)

cpustat extension
        reporting CPU statistics (Sec. 13.1)
        reporting CPU statistics (Sec. 13.1.2)

cron command
        scheduling applications (Sec. 13.2.4)

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D

daemon
        class scheduler (Sec. 13.2.2.4.3)

data path (Sec. 1.3.2.1)

dbx command
        changing kernel attributes (Sec. 5.6.1.1.1)
        debugging applications (Sec. 2.6)
        displaying UBC statistics (Sec. 12.3)
        displaying UBC statistics (Sec. 12.3.4)
        to determine support for attribute (Sec. 3.1)

debugging
        applications (Sec. 2.6)
        dbx command (Sec. 2.6)
        kdbx command (Sec. 2.6)
        ladebug (Sec. 2.6)

DECevent utility
        monitoring system events (Sec. 2.2)
        monitoring system events (Sec. 2.2.2)

deferred swap mode (Sec. 4.4.1.8)

defragment command
        AdvFS (Sec. 11.2.1.6)

delay_wbuffers attribute
        delaying cluster writes (Sec. 11.3.3.2)

direct I/O (Sec. 11.2.1.3)

disk
        defragmenting (Sec. 11.2.1.6)
        defragmenting (Sec. 11.3.3.4)
        displaying (Sec. 11.3.2.1)
        distributing data (Sec. 9.1)
        distributing file systems (Sec. 9.1)
        guidelines for distributing I/O (Sec. 9.1)
        hardware RAID (Sec. 9.4)
        improving performance (Sec. 9.0)
        LSM (Sec. 9.3)
        LSM (Sec. 9.3.1)
        monitoring I/O distribution (Sec. 9.2)
        quotas (Sec. 2.2.4)
        RAID5 (Sec. 1.3.1)
        using in hardware RAID subsystem (Sec. 9.4.1)

disk quotas
        limiting disk usage (Sec. 2.2.4)
        UFS (Sec. 11.3.1.6)

displaying
        file systems (Sec. 11.2.2)
        file systems (Sec. 11.3.2)
        memory (Sec. 12.3)
        NFS (Sec. 5.1)
        swap space (Sec. 12.3)
        UFS (Sec. 11.3.2)

distributing data
        AdvFS (Sec. 11.2.1.5)

dumpfs command
        displaying UFS information (Sec. 11.3.2.1)

dxproctuner (Sec. 13.2.2.1.1)

dynamic parity RAID (Sec. 1.3.1)

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E

eager swap mode (Sec. 4.4.1.8)

event logging
        options for (Sec. 2.2)

Event Manager
        monitoring system events (Sec. 2.2.1)

event monitoring (Sec. 2.5)
        Compaq Analyze (Sec. 2.2.3)
        DECevent (Sec. 2.2.2)
        Event Manager (Sec. 2.2.1)
        nfswatch command (Sec. 2.5)
        Performance Visualizer (Sec. 2.5)
        volstat utility (Sec. 2.5)
        volwatch command (Sec. 2.5)

extent map
        displaying (Sec. 11.2.2.4)

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F

fabric (Sec. 1.3.3.1.2)

Fibre Channel
        See also SCSI
        arbitrated loop (Sec. 1.3.3.1.3)
        data rates (Sec. 1.3.3)
        distance (Sec. 1.3.3)
        fabric (Sec. 1.3.3.1.2)
        overcoming SCSI limitations (Sec. 1.3.3)
        point-to-point (Sec. 1.3.3.1.1)
        topology (Sec. 1.3.3.1)
        zoning
                See also Fibre Channel switch

Fibre Channel switch
        zoning, when required (Sec. 1.3.3.3.2)

fifo_do_adaptive attribute
        modifying pipe code (Sec. 4.4.3)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.3)

file domains
        displaying (Sec. 11.2.2.3)

file systems
        AdvFS (Sec. 11.2)
        displaying (Sec. 11.2.2)
        distributing (Sec. 9.1)
        NFS (Sec. 11.4)
        resources (Sec. 1.4.5)
        tuning (Sec. 11.3.3)
        UFS (Sec. 11.3)

filesets
        displaying (Sec. 11.2.2.4)
        displaying (Sec. 11.2.2.5)

flush queue (Sec. 11.2.3)

free page list (Sec. 12.1.1)
        displaying (Sec. 12.3.1)

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G

gettimeofday ( ) function
        improving performance (Sec. 4.2)

gh_chunks attribute
        modifying (Sec. 4.4.1.2.2)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.1.2.2)
        reserving shared memory (Sec. 12.6)
        using granularity hints (Sec. 4.4.1.2)

gh_fail_if_no_mem attribute
        reserving shared memory (Sec. 12.6.1)

gh_min_seg_size attribute
        reserving shared memory (Sec. 12.6.1)

gprof command
        profiling applications (Sec. 2.6)

granularity hints
        reserving shared memory (Sec. 12.6)

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H

hardware
        configuration (Sec. 1.1.1)
        gathering information
                See also hwmgr utility

hardware configuration
        guidelines to improve Internet server performance (Sec. 6.1)
        mapping (Sec. 1.1.1)
        overview (Sec. 1.1.1)

hardware RAID (Sec. 9.4)
        See also RAID
        configuration guidelines (Sec. 9.4)
        configuration guidelines (Sec. 9.4.3)
        disk capacity (Sec. 9.4.3.2)
        distributing disk data (Sec. 9.4.3.1)
        dual-redundant controllers (Sec. 9.4.3.6)
        features (Sec. 9.4.1)
        products (Sec. 9.4.2)
        RAID support (Sec. 9.4.1)
        spare disks (Sec. 9.4.3.7)
        stripe size (Sec. 9.4.3.3)
        striping mirrored disks (Sec. 9.4.3.4)
        write-back cache (Sec. 9.4.1)
        write-back cache (Sec. 9.4.3.5)

hiprof
        See also atom toolkit
        profiling applications (Sec. 2.6)

hwmgr utility
        gathering information (Sec. 2.3.1)
        network cards (Sec. 5.6.1.2)

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I

I/O clustering
        displaying cluster reads and writes (Sec. 11.3.2.2)

idle time
        displaying (Sec. 12.3.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.2.1)

ifqmaxlen attribute
        increasing the number of output packets before packets are dropped (Sec. 6.3.3)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.3.3.1)

immediate swap mode (Sec. 4.4.1.8)

inactive page list (Sec. 12.1.1)

inifaddr_hsize attribute
        improving IP address lookups (Sec. 10.2.10)
        increasing the number of hash buckets (Sec. 6.3.2.1)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.3.2.2)

inodes
        reducing density of (Sec. 11.3.1.2)

Internet
        subsystem (Sec. 1.8)

Internet server
        advanced tuning recommendations (Sec. 6.2.3.3)
        configuring memory and swap space (Sec. 6.1.1)
        definition of (Sec. 8.1)
        gathering configuration information (Sec. 6.1.6)
        hardware configuration guidelines (Sec. 6.1)
        logging IP addresses (Sec. 6.1.2)
        modifying generic attributes (Sec. 6.3)
        modifying Internet attributes (Sec. 6.2)
        modifying Internet attributes (Sec. 6.3.1)
        modifying network attributes (Sec. 6.3.2.9)
        modifying process attributes (Sec. 6.2.1.3)
        modifying socket attributes (Sec. 6.2.2.5)
        modifying socket attributes (Sec. 6.3.3.3)
        modifying virtual memory attributes (Sec. 6.3.4)
        monitoring network statistics (Sec. 6.1.3)
        monitoring socket statistics (Sec. 6.1.4)
        monitoring virtual memory statistics (Sec. 6.1.5)
        multiprocess (Sec. 6.2.2.2)
        netstat command (Sec. 2.4.5)
        primary tuning recommendations (Sec. 6.1.7)
        SMP systems (Sec. 6.3.2.7)
        tuning (Sec. 6.0)
        tuning a screening firewall (Sec. 6.3.3.1)
        tuning a screening firewall (Sec. 6.3.3.2)
        tuning a screening router (Sec. 6.3.3.1)
        tuning a screening router (Sec. 6.3.3.2)
        types of (Sec. 6.2)

interprocess communication
        See also IPC
        subsystem (Sec. 1.8)

interrupts
        displaying (Sec. 12.3.1)

iostat command (Sec. 13.2.2.1.1)
        displaying CPU usage (Sec. 9.2.1)
        displaying disk usage (Sec. 9.2.1)

io_throttle_maxmzthruput attribute
        caching UFS I/O (Sec. 11.3.3.1)

io_throttle_shift attribute
        caching UFS I/O (Sec. 11.3.3.1)

IPC (Sec. 8.4)
        See also System V IPC
        displaying (Sec. 12.3)
        monitoring (Sec. 13.1)

ipcs command
        displaying IPC (Sec. 12.3)
        monitoring IPC (Sec. 13.1)
        monitoring IPC (Sec. 8.4)

ipintrq data structure
        checking dropped packets (Sec. 10.2.18)

ipport_unserreserved attribute
        modifying outgoing connections (Sec. 4.4.5.3)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.5.3)

ipport_userreserved attribute
        increasing connection ports (Sec. 10.2.4)
        increasing connection ports (Sec. 6.2.1.2)
        modifying the range for connection ports (Sec. 6.3.2.6)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.2.1.3)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.3.2.7)

ipport_userreserved_min attribute
        modifying range of outgoing ports (Sec. 10.2.5)

ipqmaxlen attribute
        increasing the length of IP input queue (Sec. 6.3.2.8)
        preventing dropped packets (Sec. 10.2.18)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.3.2.9)

ipqs attribute
        increasing IP input queues (Sec. 10.2.7)
        increasing the number of IP input queues (Sec. 6.3.2.7)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.3.2.8)

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K

kdbx command
        debugging kernels (Sec. 2.6)

kernel
        debugging (Sec. 2.6)
        profiling (Sec. 2.6)
        reducing size of (Sec. 12.4.2)

kmemreserve_percent attribute
        increasing memory (Sec. 12.4.3)
        increasing memory (Sec. 6.3)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.3.1)

kprofile utility
        profiling kernels (Sec. 2.6)

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L

ladebug
        debugging kernels and applications (Sec. 2.6)

LAG interface
        providing higher availability (Sec. 1.4.5)

large programs
        See also program size limits

latency (Sec. 1.2)

lazy swap mode (Sec. 4.4.1.8)

lockinfo utlity
        gathering locking statistics (Sec. 2.4.1)

locks
        monitoring (Sec. 13.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 13.1.3)

lockstats extension
        displaying lock statistics (Sec. 13.1)
        displaying lock statistics (Sec. 13.1.3)

Logical Storage Manager
        See LSM

loop topology
        characteristics (Sec. 1.3.3.1.3)

LSM
        features (Sec. 9.3.1)
        managing disks (Sec. 9.3)
        monitoring (Sec. 2.5)
        page-out rate (Sec. 12.5.7)
        RAID support (Sec. 9.3)
        RAID support (Sec. 9.3.1)

lsof command
        displaying open files (Sec. 2.6)

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malloc function
        controlling memory usage (Sec. 7.1.6)

malloc map
        increasing (Sec. 12.4.3)

managing memory
        paging (Sec. 1.6.1)
        swapping (Sec. 1.6.1)

maxusers attribute
        increasing name cache size (Sec. 11.1.2)
        increasing open files (Sec. 8.5.1)
        increasing system resources (Sec. 8.1.1)
        increasing the size of system tables and data structures (Sec. 6.2.2)
        modifying the space allocated to system tables (Sec. 4.4.6.9)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.6.9)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.2.2.1)

max_async_req attribute
        modifying pages wired for packets (Sec. 4.4.8.5)
        modifying sessions in RDG table (Sec. 4.4.8.4)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.8.4)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.8.5)

max_objs attribute
        modifying objects in the RDG (Sec. 4.4.8.1)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.8.1)

max_per_proc_address_size attribute
        modifying per process stack size (Sec. 4.4.6.6)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.6.6)

max_per_proc_address_space attribute
        increasing user address space (Sec. 8.3)
        increasing user process address space limits (Sec. 6.2.2.4)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.2.2.5)

max_per_proc_data_size attribute
        increasing maximum segment size (Sec. 8.2.1)
        increasing user process data segment size limits (Sec. 6.2.2.3)
        modifying the data size (Sec. 4.4.6.4)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.6.4)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.2.2.4)

max_per_proc_stack_size attribute
        modifying the stack size (Sec. 4.4.6.2)
        modifying the stack size (Sec. 8.2.2)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.6.2)

max_proc_per_user attribute
        modifying the number of processes (Sec. 4.4.6.7)
        modifying the number of processes (Sec. 6.2.2.1)
        modifying the number of processes (Sec. 8.1.2)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.6.7)

max_proc_per_user attributes
        recommended value (Sec. 6.2.2.2)

max_threads_per_user attribute
        modifying the number of threads (Sec. 4.4.6.8)
        modifying the number of threads (Sec. 6.2.2.2)
        modifying the number of threads (Sec. 8.1.3)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.6.8)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.2.2.3)

max_ufs_mounts attribute
        increasing the number of UFS mounts (Sec. 11.3.1.7)

max_vnodes attribute
        increasing open files (Sec. 8.5.1)

memory
        improving application performance (Sec. 12.7)

Memory File System
        See MFS

memory management
        See also paging
        buffer caches (Sec. 1.7)
        CPU cache access (Sec. 1.7)
        increasing memory resources (Sec. 12.4)
        locking (Sec. 7.1.7)
        metadata buffer cache (Sec. 12.1.2.1)
        operation (Sec. 12.1)
        overview (Sec. 1.6)
        paging (Sec. 12.1.4.2)
        PAL code (Sec. 12.1.3.3)
        prewriting modified pages (Sec. 12.1.4.1)
        prewriting modified pages (Sec. 12.5.5)
        swap buffers (Sec. 12.1.4.3)
        swapping (Sec. 12.1.4.3)
        tracking pages (Sec. 12.1.1)
        UBC (Sec. 12.1.2.2)

metadata buffer cache (Sec. 12.1.2.1)
        displaying (Sec. 11.3.2.3)
        hash chain table size (Sec. 11.1.4)
        tuning (Sec. 11.1.4)

MFS (Sec. 11.3.1.5)
        mount limit (Sec. 11.3.1.7)

migrate command
        distributing AdvFS data (Sec. 11.2.1.4)

mirroring
        hardware RAID (Sec. 9.4.1)
        RAID1 (Sec. 1.3.1)

monitor command
        monitoring systems (Sec. 13.1)
        monitoring systems (Sec. 2.5)

monitoring
        applications (Sec. 2.6)
        CAM (Sec. 9.5)
        CPU (Sec. 13.1)
        disk I/O distribution (Sec. 9.2)
        disk I/O distribution (Sec. 9.2.1)
        lsof command (Sec. 2.6)
        monitor command (Sec. 2.5)
        networks (Sec. 10.1)
        open files (Sec. 2.6)
        sockets (Sec. 10.1.1)
        top command (Sec. 2.5)
        top command (Sec. 2.5)

msg_max attribute
        increasing message size (Sec. 8.4.1)

msg_mnb attribute
        controlling number of bytes on a queue (Sec. 8.4.2)

msg_size attribute
        modifying the size of the RDG Message (Sec. 4.4.8.2)
        modifying the size of the RDG Message (Sec. 4.4.8.3)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.8.2)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.8.3)

msg_tql attribute
        increasing message queue size (Sec. 8.4.3)

multiprocessing (Sec. 13.2.1)

multiprocessor (Sec. 1.7)

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name_cache_hash_size attribute
        controlling name cache (Sec. 11.1.2)

name_cache_valid_time attribute
        controlling name cache (Sec. 11.1.2)

NetRAIN
        configuring multiple interfaces (Sec. 1.4.2)
        configuring multiple interfaces (Sec. 1.4.3)

netstat command (Sec. 5.5)
        bad checksums (Sec. 2.4.5.6)
        checking for retransmitted packets (Sec. 10.2.13)
        checking network statistics (Sec. 6.1.4)
        device driver errors (Sec. 2.4.5.2)
        displaying (Sec. 2.4.5)
        displaying dropped packets (Sec. 12.4.3)
        dropped or lost packets (Sec. 2.4.5.5)
        input and output errors and collisions (Sec. 2.4.5.1)
        memory usage (Sec. 2.4.5.3)
        monitoring full sockets (Sec. 10.2.16)
        monitoring networks (Sec. 2.4.5)
        monitoring packets (Sec. 10.2.18)
        out-of-order packers (Sec. 2.4.5.6)
        protocol statistics (Sec. 2.4.5.8)
        retransmission (Sec. 2.4.5.6)
        routing statistics (Sec. 2.4.5.7)
        socket connections (Sec. 2.4.5.4)

networks
        checking for dropped packets (Sec. 10.2.18)
        displaying (Sec. 2.4.3)
        IP address lookup (Sec. 10.2.10)
        IP input queues (Sec. 10.2.7)
        keepalive (Sec. 10.2.9)
        LAG interface (Sec. 1.4.5)
        mbuf cluster compression (Sec. 10.2.8)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 2.4.5)
        monitoring (Sec. 2.5)
        NetRAIN (Sec. 1.4.2)
        NetRAIN (Sec. 1.4.3)
        network adapter (Sec. 1.4)
        network interface (Sec. 1.4)
        network interface card (Sec. 1.4)
        NFS limits (Sec. 5.5.1)
        outgoing connection ports (Sec. 10.2.4)
        outgoing connection ports (Sec. 10.2.5)
        partial TCP timeout limit (Sec. 10.2.11)
        PMTU discovery (Sec. 10.2.6)
        preventing dropped packets (Sec. 10.2.18)
        routing (Sec. 1.4.4)
        socket buffer size (Sec. 10.2.17)
        socket listen queue (Sec. 10.2.3)
        subsystem (Sec. 1.4.1)
        subsystem (Sec. 1.8)
        TCP context timeout limit (Sec. 10.2.12)
        TCP data acknowledgment (Sec. 10.2.14)
        TCP hash table (Sec. 10.2.2)
        TCP lookup rate (Sec. 10.2.1)
        TCP retransmission rate (Sec. 10.2.13)
        TCP segment size (Sec. 10.2.15)
        tuning guidelines (Sec. 10.2)
        UDP socket buffers (Sec. 10.2.16)
        using redundant networks (Sec. 1.4.2)

new_wire_method attribute
        resolving high systemtime (Sec. 4.4.1.1)

NFS
        cache timeout limits (Sec. 5.4.3)
        client problems (Sec. 5.7)
        client threads (Sec. 5.4.2)
        configuration (Sec. 5.4.1)
        configuration (Sec. 5.4.2)
        dectecting poor performance (Sec. 5.2)
        dectecting poor performance (Sec. 5.5)
        displaying (Sec. 2.4.3)
        displaying (Sec. 2.4.6)
        gathering (Sec. 2.4.7)
        identifying network card (Sec. 5.6.1.2)
        identifying network card (Sec. 5.6.1.2)
        modifying server side (Sec. 5.6.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 2.5)
        monitoring (Sec. 5.1)
        mount options (Sec. 5.4.3)
        netstat command (Sec. 2.4.5)
        nfswatch command (Sec. 2.4.8)
        performance benefits and tradeoffs (Sec. 5.3)
        retransmissions (Sec. 5.5)
        server problems (Sec. 5.6)
        server response time (Sec. 5.6.1.1.1)
        server threads (Sec. 5.4.1)
        tcpdump utility (Sec. 2.4.4)
        timeout limit (Sec. 5.5.1)
        tuning guidelines (Sec. 5.0)
        tuning guidelines (Sec. 5.6)
        tuning guidelines (Sec. 5.7)
        using UBC (Sec. 1.5.1.1)
        write gathering (Sec. 5.4.2)
        write gathering (Sec. 5.6.1.1)

NFS client
        increasing NFS performance of (Sec. 5.7)

NFS server
        problems (Sec. 5.6)
        server performance (Sec. 5.6)

nfs3_jukebox_delay attribute
        controlling time before client will tramsmit (Sec. 5.7.1.2)

nfs3_readahead attribute
        improving read performance
                See also nfs3_maxreadahead attribute
                See also nfs3_readahead attribute
        recommended value (Sec. 5.7.1.1)
        recommended value (Sec. 5.7.1.1)

nfsiod daemon (Sec. 5.4.1)
nfsiod daemon (Sec. 5.4.2)
        gathering client information (Sec. 2.4.7)
        tuning client (Sec. 5.6.1.1)

nfsstat command
        measuring retransmissions with (Sec. 5.5)

nfsstat utility
        displaying network and NFS statistics (Sec. 2.4.3)

nfswatch command
        monitoring incoming traffic (Sec. 2.4.8)
        monitoring NFS (Sec. 2.5)

nfs_*_ticks attribute
        write gathering
                See also nfs_write_gather attribute

nfs_cto attribute
        specifying file consistency across client (Sec. 5.7.1.5)

nfs_dnlc attribute
        directory name lookup cache
                See also nfs_nnc attribute

nfs_fast_ticks attribute
        time the server will delay the write (Sec. 5.6.1.2)

nfs_nnc attribute
        negative name cache lookups (Sec. 5.7.1.4)

nfs_quicker_attr
        fetching file attributes (Sec. 5.7.1.6)

nfs_slow_ticks attribute
        time the server will delay the write (Sec. 5.6.1.2)

nfs_tcprecspace attribute
        recommended value (Sec. 5.6.1.3)

nfs_tcprecvspace attribute
        increasing the buffer size
                See also nfs_tcpsendspace attribute

nfs_tcpsendspace attribute
        increasing the buffer size (Sec. 5.6.1.3)
        recommended value (Sec. 5.6.1.3)

nfs_ufs_lbolt attribute
        modifying parameter in the kernel (Sec. 5.6.1.1.1)
        write gathering
                See also nfs_write_gather attribute

nfs_unkn_ticks attribute
        time the server will delay the write (Sec. 5.6.1.2)

nfs_write_gather attribute
        time server will delay the write (Sec. 5.6.1.1)
        write gathering
                See also nfs_ufs_lbolt attribute

nice command (Sec. 13.2.2.1.1)
        decreasing system load (Sec. 13.1.1)
        prioritizing applications (Sec. 13.2.3)

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open files
        displaying with lsof (Sec. 2.6)

open_max_hard attribute
        controlling open file descriptors (Sec. 8.5.2)

open_max_soft attribute
        controlling open file descriptors (Sec. 8.5.2)

Oracle
        choosing and enabling IPC protocols (Sec. 4.3)
        detecting poor performance (Sec. 4.1)
        gettimeofday ( ) function (Sec. 4.2)
        modifying AdvFS attributes (Sec. 4.4.2)
        modifying Internet attributes (Sec. 4.4.5)
        modifying interprocess communication attributes (Sec. 4.4.4)
        modifying process attributes (Sec. 4.4.6)
        modifying real-time attributes (Sec. 4.4.7)
        modifying reliable datagram attributes (Sec. 4.4.8)
        modifying virtual memory attributes (Sec. 4.4.1)
        modifying virtual memory attributes (Sec. 4.4.3)
        monitoring (Sec. 4.1)
        tuning (Sec. 4.0)
        tuning (Sec. 4.4)

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page coloring (Sec. 12.1.3.3)

page fault (Sec. 12.1.3.3)

page in
        displaying (Sec. 12.3.1)

page lists
        tracking (Sec. 12.1.1)

page mapping
        big pages memory allocation (Sec. 12.7)

page outs (Sec. 12.1.4.2)
        displaying (Sec. 12.3.1)

page table (Sec. 12.1.3.2)

page-in page fault (Sec. 12.1.3.3)

pages
        displaying (Sec. 12.3.1)
        reclaiming (Sec. 12.1)
        reclaiming (Sec. 12.1.4)
        size (Sec. 1.6)
        size (Sec. 12.1)
        tracking (Sec. 12.1.1)

paging (Sec. 12.1.4.2)
        attributes for (Sec. 12.1.4)
        controlling rate of (Sec. 12.1.4.2)
        displaying (Sec. 12.3.1)
        increasing threshold (Sec. 12.5.1)
        memory management (Sec. 1.6.1)
        reclaiming pages (Sec. 12.1)
        threshold (Sec. 12.1.4)
        threshold (Sec. 12.1.4)
        threshold (Sec. 12.1.4.2)

PAL code
        influence on memory management (Sec. 12.1.3.3)

parallelism
        using in applications (Sec. 7.1.3)

path maximum transmission unit
        disabling (Sec. 6.2.1.1)

performance
        improving Internet servers (Sec. 6.0)
        improving network file systems (Sec. 5.0)
        improving Oracle (Sec. 4.4)
        methodology approach to solve problems (Sec. 2.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 2.0)

Performance Visualizer
        monitoring cluster events (Sec. 2.5)

per_proc_address_size attribute
        modifying per process address size (Sec. 4.4.6.5)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.6.5)

per_proc_address_space attribute
        increasing user address space (Sec. 8.3)

per_proc_data_size attribute
        increasing default segment size (Sec. 8.2.1)
        modifying per process data size (Sec. 4.4.6.3)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.6.3)

per_proc_stack_size attribute
        increasing maximum stack size (Sec. 8.2.2)
        modifying per process stack size (Sec. 4.4.6.1)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.6.1)

physical memory (Sec. 1.6)
        caching data (Sec. 1.6.2)
        distribution of (Sec. 1.6)
        distribution of (Sec. 12.1)
        process (Sec. 1.6)
        reserving for shared memory (Sec. 12.6)
        UBC (Sec. 1.6)
        UBC (Sec. 12.1)
        virtual memory (Sec. 1.6)
        virtual memory (Sec. 12.1)
        wired (Sec. 1.6)
        wired (Sec. 12.1)

ping command
        querying remote system (Sec. 10.1)

pipes (Sec. 8.4)

pixie profiler
        See also atom toolkit
        profiling applications (Sec. 2.6)

PMTU
        See also path maximum transmission unit

pmtu_enabled attribute
        disabling PMTU discovery (Sec. 10.2.6)
        disabling PMTU discovery (Sec. 6.2.1.1)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.2.1.2)

point-to-point (Sec. 1.3.3.1.1)

preventing data loss
        AdvFS (Sec. 11.2.1.2)
        using RAID (Sec. 11.2.1.1)

prewriting modified pages (Sec. 12.1.4.1)
        managing (Sec. 12.5.5)

priorities
        changing application (Sec. 13.2.3)

private_cache_percent attribute
        reserving cache memory (Sec. 12.1.3.3)

process
        resident set size limit (Sec. 12.5.4)
        subsystem (Sec. 1.8)

process tuner (Sec. 13.2.2.1.1)
        displaying process information (Sec. 13.1)

prof command
        profiling applications (Sec. 2.6)

profiling
        applications (Sec. 2.6)

program size limits
        tuning (Sec. 8.2)

ps command
        displaying CPU usage (Sec. 12.3.2)
        displaying idle threads (Sec. 2.4.6)
        displaying memory usage (Sec. 12.3.2)

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rad_gh_regions attribute
        modifying (Sec. 4.4.1.2.1)
        modifying chunks of memory
                See also gh_chunks attribute
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.1.2.1)

RAID (Sec. 1.3.1)
        hardware subsystem (Sec. 9.4)
        levels (Sec. 1.3.1)
        LSM (Sec. 9.3)
        products (Sec. 1.3.1)

RAID levels (Sec. 1.3.1)

random access patterns (Sec. 1.2)

raw I/O (Sec. 1.2)

real-time interprocess communication
        pipes and signals (Sec. 8.4)

recommendations
        Internet server configurations (Sec. 6.0)

resident set (Sec. 12.1.3.2)
        controlling size of (Sec. 12.5.4)
        displaying size of (Sec. 12.3.2)

resources
        CPU (Sec. 1.6.2)
        disk storage (Sec. 1.3)
        file system (Sec. 1.4.5)
        memory (Sec. 1.5.2)
        network subsystem (Sec. 1.4.1)
        networks (Sec. 1.3.3.4)

rm_check_for_ipl
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.9)
        specifying the bitmask (Sec. 4.4.9)

rotational latency (Sec. 1.2)

routing
        network path (Sec. 1.4.4)

runclass command (Sec. 13.2.2)
runclass command (Sec. 13.2.2.5)

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sbcompress_threshold attribute
        enabling mbuf cluster compressions (Sec. 10.2.8)
        enabling the mbuf cluster compression (Sec. 6.2.3.2)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.2.3.3)

sb_max attribute
        increasing socket buffer size (Sec. 10.2.17)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.3.4)
        specifying the size of a socket buffer (Sec. 6.3.3.3)

scalability (Sec. 1.2)

sched_stat utility
        gathering CPU usage and process statistics (Sec. 2.4.2)

screen_cachedepth attribute
        See also screen_cachewidth attribute
        recommended value (Sec. 6.3.3.2)
        reducing screening cache misses (Sec. 6.3.3.1)

screen_cachewidth attribute
        See also screen_cachedepth attribute
        recommended value (Sec. 6.3.3.2)
        reducing screening cache misses (Sec. 6.3.3.1)

screen_maxpend attribute
        recommended value (Sec. 6.3.3.3)
        reducing the screening buffer drops (Sec. 6.3.3.2)

SCSI
        See also Fibre Channel
        bus length (Sec. 1.3.2.5)
        bus speed (Sec. 1.3.2.2)
        bus termination (Sec. 1.3.2.5)
        data path (Sec. 1.3.2.1)
        extending UltraSCSI bus segments (Sec. 1.3.2.4)
        parallel (Sec. 1.3.2)
        transmission method (Sec. 1.3.2.3)

seek time (Sec. 1.2)

sequential access patterns (Sec. 1.2)

server
        increasing NFS performance of (Sec. 5.6)

setrlimit
        controlling resource consumption (Sec. 8.0)

setrlimit system call
        setting resident set limit (Sec. 12.5.4)

shared memory
        reserving memory for (Sec. 12.6)

shm_max attribute
        increasing shared memory region size (Sec. 8.4.4)
        modifying the System V maximum size regions (Sec. 4.4.4.2)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.4.2)

shm_min attribute
        modifying the System V minimum region (Sec. 4.4.4.3)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.4.3)

shm_mni attribute
        modifying the regions that can be used at one time (Sec. 4.4.4.4)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.4.4)

shm_seg attribute
        increasing attached shared memory regions (Sec. 8.4.5)
        modifying the regions that can be attached at one time (Sec. 4.4.4.5)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.4.5)

short page fault (Sec. 12.1.3.3)

showfdmn utility
        displaying file domain and volume statistics (Sec. 11.2.2.3)

showfile utility
        displaying AdvFS file information (Sec. 11.2.2.4)

showfsets utility
        displaying fileset information (Sec. 11.2.2.5)

signals (Sec. 8.4)

smooth sync queue (Sec. 11.2.3)

smoothsync_age attribute
        caching UFS I/O (Sec. 11.3.3.1)

SMP systems (Sec. 1.7)
        tuning (Sec. 6.3.2.7)

sobacklog_drops attribute
        counting the number of times the system dropped a packet (Sec. 6.1.5)
        monitoring sockets (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring sockets (Sec. 10.1.1)

sobacklog_hiwat attribute
        counting the maximum number of pending requests (Sec. 6.1.5)
        monitoring sockets (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring sockets (Sec. 10.1.1)

sockets
        IPC (Sec. 8.4)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 10.1.1)
        subsystem (Sec. 1.8)
        tuning (Sec. 10.2.17)
        tuning (Sec. 10.2.3)

software RAID
        See LSM

somaxconn attribute
        increasing socket listen queue (Sec. 10.2.3)
        increasing the maximum number of pending TCP connections (Sec. 6.2.3)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.2.3.1)

somaxconn_drops attribute
        counting the number of times the system dropped a packet (Sec. 6.1.5)
        monitoring sockets (Sec. 10.1)
        monitoring sockets (Sec. 10.1.1)

sominconn attribute
        increasing socket listen queue (Sec. 10.2.3)
        increasing the number of pending TCP connections (Sec. 6.2.3.1)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.2.3.2)

SO_KEEPALIVE attribute
        enabling TCP keepalive functionality (Sec. 6.3.2.4)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.3.2.5)

ssm_threshold attribute
        allocating shared memory (Sec. 4.4.1.2)
        controlling shared page tables (Sec. 8.4.6)
        disabling shared memory (Sec. 4.4.1.1)
        modifying the System V shared regions (Sec. 4.4.4.1)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.1.1)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.1.2)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.4.1)

stack size
        increasing (Sec. 8.2.1)

streams (Sec. 8.4)

striping
        hardware RAID (Sec. 9.4.1)

striping files
        AdvFS (Sec. 11.2.1.5)

subsystem
        Internet (Sec. 1.9)
        interprocess communication (Sec. 1.9)
        most commonly tuned (Sec. 1.8)
        process (Sec. 1.9)
        socket (Sec. 1.9)
        virtual memory (Sec. 1.9)

swap in (Sec. 12.1.4.3)

swap out (Sec. 12.1.4.3)

swap space (Sec. 12.5.7)
        asynchronous requests (Sec. 12.5.7)
        displaying (Sec. 12.3.3)
        distributing (Sec. 12.2)
        I/O queue depth (Sec. 12.1.4.3)
        managing (Sec. 12.5.7)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.2.1)
        performance guidelines (Sec. 12.2)
        specifying (Sec. 12.2)

swapdevice attribute
        specifying swap space (Sec. 12.2)

swapon command
        adding swap space (Sec. 12.2)
        adding swap space (Sec. 12.3)
        displaying swap space (Sec. 12.3)
        displaying swap space (Sec. 12.3.3)

swapping
        aggressive (Sec. 12.5.3)
        changing rate of (Sec. 12.5.2)
        controlling rate of (Sec. 12.1.4.2)
        disk space (Sec. 12.3)
        impact on performance (Sec. 12.1.4.3)
        memory management (Sec. 1.6.1)
        operation (Sec. 12.1.4.3)
        threshold (Sec. 12.1.4)
        threshold (Sec. 12.1.4.3)

switchlog command
        moving transaction log (Sec. 11.2.1.8)

symmetrical multiprocessing (Sec. 1.7)
        tuning (Sec. 6.3.2.7)

sync
        minimizing impact of (Sec. 12.1.4.1)

synchronous I/O (Sec. 11.2.3)

synchronous requests (Sec. 12.5.7)

synchronous swap buffers (Sec. 12.1.4.3)

sysconfig command
        determining support for attribute (Sec. 3.1)

SysMan Menu
        class scheduler (Sec. 13.2.2.1.2)
        class scheduling (Sec. 13.2.2)
        class scheduling (Sec. 13.2.2.6)
        iostat command (Sec. 13.2.2.1.1)
        vmstat command (Sec. 13.2.2.1.1)

system buffer cache (Sec. 5.6)

system events
        monitoring with tcpdump utility (Sec. 2.5)

system jobs
        displaying statistics for (Sec. 13.1)

system load
        decreasing with nice (Sec. 13.1.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 13.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 13.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 13.1.1)

system time
        displaying (Sec. 12.3.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.2.1)

System V IPC (Sec. 8.4)

systems
        adding CPU (Sec. 13.2.1)
        optimizing CPU resources (Sec. 13.2)

sys_check utility
        gathering configuration information (Sec. 13.1)
        gathering configuration information (Sec. 2.3.3)
        gathering configuration information (Sec. 6.1.7)

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tcbhashnum attribute (Sec. 6.3.2)
        increasing number of hash tables (Sec. 10.2.2)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.3.2.1)

tcbhashsize attribute
        improving TCP lookups (Sec. 10.2.1)
        increasing the size of the TCP hash table (Sec. 6.2.1)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.2.1.1)

TCP
        See also Transmission Control Protocol
TCP (Sec. 6.2.3.1)
TCP (Sec. 6.2.3.2)

tcpdump utility
        determining support on remote system (Sec. 5.6.1.3)
        gathering information (Sec. 2.4.4)
        monitoring network events (Sec. 2.5)
        monitoring network packets (Sec. 10.1)

tcpnodelack attribute
        delaying TCP data acknowledgment (Sec. 10.2.14)

tcp_keepalive_default attribute
        enabling keepalive (Sec. 10.2.9)

tcp_keepcnt attribute
        specifying maximum keepalive probes (Sec. 10.2.9)
        specifying maximum keepalive probes (Sec. 6.3.2.5)

tcp_keepidle attribute
        specifying the amount of idle time (Sec. 10.2.9)
        specifying the amount of idle time (Sec. 6.3.2.5)

tcp_keepinit attribute
        modifying the TCP partial connection timeout limit (Sec. 6.3.2.2)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.3.2.3)
        specifying TCP timeout limit (Sec. 10.2.11)
        specifying TCP timeout limit (Sec. 10.2.9)
        specifying the time before connection times out (Sec. 6.3.2.5)

tcp_keepintvl attribute
        specifying retransmission probes (Sec. 10.2.9)
        specifying the time between retransmission of keepalive probes (Sec. 6.3.2.5)

tcp_msl attribute
        decreasing TCP context timeout limit (Sec. 10.2.12)
        increasing the TCP connection context timeout rate (Sec. 6.3.2.5)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.3.2.6)

tcp_mssdflt attribute
        increasing the TCP segment size (Sec. 10.2.15)

tcp_rexmit_interval_min attribute
        decreasing TCP retransmission rate (Sec. 10.2.13)
        decreasing the rate of TCP retransmissions (Sec. 6.3.2.3)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.3.2.4)

third
        See also atom toolkit
        profiling applications (Sec. 2.6)

threads
        lacking of (Sec. 6.2.2.3)

throughput (Sec. 1.2)

top command
        monitoring systems (Sec. 13.1)
        monitoring systems (Sec. 2.5)

traceroute command
        displaying packet route (Sec. 10.1)

Transmission Control Protocol
        See TCP
        Increasing the size of the TCP hash table (Sec. 6.2.1)

transmission method (Sec. 1.3.2.3)

tuning
        address space (Sec. 8.3)
        AdvFS (Sec. 1.5)
        application memory (Sec. 7.1.6)
        CPU (Sec. 13.2)
        file system (Sec. 1.4.5)
        Internet server (Sec. 6.0)
        IPC limits (Sec. 8.4)
        memory (Sec. 12.4)
        memory (Sec. 12.5)
        network subsystem (Sec. 10.2)
        NFS (Sec. 1.5.1.1)
        NFS (Sec. 5.6)
        NFS (Sec. 5.7)
        open file limits (Sec. 8.5)
        Oracle (Sec. 4.0)
        paging and swapping (Sec. 12.5)
        process limits (Sec. 8.1)
        program size limits (Sec. 8.2)
        system resources (Sec. 8.0)
        UBC (Sec. 11.1.3)
        UFS (Sec. 11.3.3)

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UBC (Sec. 1.6)
UBC (Sec. 12.1)
        allocating memory to (Sec. 12.1.2.2)
        borrowing threshold (Sec. 12.1.4.2)
        displaying (Sec. 12.3.4)
        displaying pages used by (Sec. 12.3.1)
        for AdvFS (Sec. 1.5.1)
        for NFS (Sec. 1.5.1.1)
        tools to display (Sec. 12.3)
        tuning (Sec. 11.1.3)
        tuning Internet servers (Sec. 6.3.5)

UBC LRU page list (Sec. 12.1.1)

ubc_borrowpercent attribute
        memory the UBC is borrowing (Sec. 4.4.1.4)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.1.4)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.3.5)
        specifying the UBC borrowing threshold (Sec. 6.3.4)

ubc_maxborrowpercent attribute
        tuning the UBC (Sec. 11.1.3)

ubc_maxdirtywrites
        tuning the UBC (Sec. 11.1.3)

ubc_maxdirtywrites attribute
        prewriting modified pages (Sec. 12.1.4.1)
        prewriting modified pages (Sec. 12.1.4.1)
        prewriting pages (Sec. 12.5.5)

ubc_maxpercent attribute
        memory the UBC is using (Sec. 4.4.1.3)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.1.3)
        recommended value (Sec. 6.3.5)
        specifying the maximum percentage of memory for the UBC (Sec. 6.3.4)
        tuning the UBC (Sec. 11.1.3)

ubc_minpercent attribute
        recommended value (Sec. 6.3.5)
        specifying the minimum percentage of memory for the UBC only (Sec. 6.3.4)
        tuning the UBC (Sec. 11.1.3)

udp_recvspace attribute
        increasing UDP socket buffers (Sec. 10.2.16)
        modifying the receive buffer size for the UDP socket (Sec. 4.4.5.2)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.5.2)

udp_sendspace attribute
        increasing UDP socket buffers (Sec. 10.2.16)
        modifying the send buffer size for the UDP socket (Sec. 4.4.5.1)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.5.1)

uerf command
        displaying memory (Sec. 12.3)

UFS
        blocks combined for a cluster (Sec. 11.3.1.4)
        combining blocks (Sec. 11.3.3.3)
        configuration guidelines (Sec. 11.3)
        defragmenting (Sec. 11.3.3.4)
        delaying cluster writes (Sec. 11.3.3.2)
        displaying (Sec. 11.3.2.1)
        fragment size (Sec. 11.3.1.1)
        fragment size (Sec. 11.3.2.1)
        inode density (Sec. 11.3.1.2)
        memory file system (MFS) (Sec. 11.3.1.5)
        monitoring (Sec. 11.3.2.2)
        mount limit (Sec. 11.3.1.7)
        quotas (Sec. 11.3.1.6)
        sequential block allocation (Sec. 11.3.1.3)
        smoothsync (Sec. 11.3.3.1)
        tuning guidelines (Sec. 11.3.3)

ufs_clusterstats structure
        displaying UFS clustering statistics (Sec. 11.3.2.2)

ufs_getapage_stats structure (Sec. 12.3)
        displaying the UBC by using the dbx (Sec. 12.3.4)

Unified Buffer Cache
        See also UBC

uprofile utility
        profiling applications (Sec. 2.6)

uptime command
        displaying system load (Sec. 13.1)
        displaying system load (Sec. 13.1.1)

user address space
        increasing (Sec. 8.3)

user data segment
        increasing (Sec. 8.2.2)

user time
        displaying (Sec. 12.3.1)
        monitoring (Sec. 9.2.1)

using RAID
        preventing data loss (Sec. 11.2.1.1)

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virtual address space (Sec. 12.1.3.1)
virtual address space (Sec. 12.1.3.1)
        displaying size of (Sec. 12.3.2)

virtual memory
        accessing addresses (Sec. 12.1.3.3)
        address space (Sec. 12.1.3.1)
        aggressive swapping (Sec. 12.5.3)
        application memory requirements (Sec. 7.1.6)
        displaying (Sec. 12.3.1)
        displaying (Sec. 12.3.2)
        displaying pages used by (Sec. 12.3.1)
        distribution of (Sec. 1.6)
        distribution of (Sec. 12.1)
        function of (Sec. 12.1)
        page faulting (Sec. 12.1.3.3)
        page table (Sec. 12.1.3.2)
        paging operation (Sec. 12.1.4.2)
        paging threshold (Sec. 12.5.1)
        resident set (Sec. 12.1.3.2)
        subsystem (Sec. 1.8)
        swapping operation (Sec. 12.1.4.3)
        translating virtual addresses (Sec. 12.1.3.2)
        working set (Sec. 12.1.3.2)

Visual Threads
        profiling applications (Sec. 2.6)

vmstat command (Sec. 13.2.2.1.1)
        displaying dropped packets (Sec. 12.4.3)
        displaying the CPU (Sec. 12.3)
        displaying virtual memory (Sec. 12.3)
        displaying virtual memory (Sec. 12.3.1)
        providing data on virtual memory usage (Sec. 6.1.6)
        tracking page lists (Sec. 12.1.1)

vm_aggressive_swap attribute
        enabling aggressive swapping (Sec. 12.5.3)

vm_asyncswapbuffers attribute
        controlling swap I/O queue depth (Sec. 12.1.4.3)
        managing swap space (Sec. 12.5.7)

vm_bigpg_anon attribute
        configuring big pages for anonymous memory (Sec. 12.7.2)

vm_bigpg_enabled attribute
        enabling big pages (Sec. 12.7)

vm_bigpg_seg attribute
        configuring big pages for text objects (Sec. 12.7.2)

vm_bigpg_shm attribute
        configuring big pages for shared memory (Sec. 12.7.2)

vm_bigpg_ssm attribute
        configuring big pages for segmented shared memory (Sec. 12.7.2)

vm_bigpg_stack attribute
        configuring big pages for stack memory (Sec. 12.7.2)

vm_bigpg_thresh attribute
        apportioning free memory among big pages (Sec. 12.7.1)

vm_max_rdpgio_kluster attribute
        increasing page-in cluster size (Sec. 12.5.6)

vm_max_wrpgio_kluster attribute
        controlling page-out cluster size (Sec. 12.5.6)

vm_page_free_hardswap attribute
        setting swapping threshold (Sec. 12.1.4)

vm_page_free_min attribute
        controlling rate of swapping (Sec. 12.5.2)
        setting free list minimum (Sec. 12.1.4)

vm_page_free_optimal attribute
        managing rate of swapping (Sec. 12.5.2)
        setting swapping threshold (Sec. 12.1.4)

vm_page_free_reserved attribute
        setting privileged tasks threshold (Sec. 12.1.4)

vm_page_free_swap attribute
        setting swapping threshold (Sec. 12.1.4)

vm_page_free_target attribute
        controlling paging (Sec. 12.5.1)
        managing rate of swapping (Sec. 12.5.2)
        setting paging threshold (Sec. 12.1.4)

vm_page_prewrite_target attribute
        prewriting modified pages (Sec. 12.1.4.1)
        prewriting pages (Sec. 12.5.5)

vm_rss_block_target attribute
        setting free page threshold for resident set limit (Sec. 12.5.4)

vm_rss_maxpercent attribute
        setting resident set limit (Sec. 12.5.4)

vm_rss_wakeup_target attribute
        setting free page threshold for resident set limit (Sec. 12.5.4)

vm_swap_eager attribute
        modifying the swap allocation mode (Sec. 4.4.1.8)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.1.8)

vm_syncswapbuffers attribute
        controlling swap I/O queue depth (Sec. 12.1.4.3)
        managing swap space (Sec. 12.5.7)

vm_ubcdirtypercent attribute
        modifying the percentage of pages that are dirty (Sec. 4.4.1.7)
        prewriting pages (Sec. 12.1.4.1)
        prewriting pages (Sec. 12.5.5)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.1.7)
        tuning the UBC (Sec. 11.1.3)

vm_ubcpagesteal attribute
        tuning the UBC (Sec. 11.1.3)

vm_ubcseqpercent attribute
        memory the UBC can use for single file (Sec. 4.4.1.5)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.1.5)
        tuning the UBC (Sec. 11.1.3)

vm_ubcseqstartpercent attribute
        modifying the UBC threshold (Sec. 4.4.1.6)
        recommended value (Sec. 4.4.1.6)
        tuning the UBC (Sec. 11.1.3)

vnodes
        definition (Sec. 8.5.1)

vnode_age attribute
        controlling name cache (Sec. 11.1.2)

vnode_deallocation_enable attribute
        controlling name cache (Sec. 11.1.2)

volstat utility
        monitoring LSM events (Sec. 2.5)

volwatch utility
        monitoring LSM events (Sec. 2.5)

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w utility
        displaying system information (Sec. 13.1)

wired memory (Sec. 1.6)
wired memory (Sec. 12.1)

wired page list (Sec. 12.1.1)
        displaying (Sec. 12.3.1)

working set (Sec. 12.1.3.2)

workload (Sec. 1.2)
        characterizing (Sec. 1.8)
        identifying resource model (Sec. 1.7)

write-back cache
        hardware RAID (Sec. 9.4.1)
        hardware RAID (Sec. 9.4.3.5)
        multiprocessing systems (Sec. 13.2.1)

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X/Open Transport Interface (Sec. 8.4)

xload command
        monitoring system load (Sec. 13.1)
        monitoring system load (Sec. 2.5)

XTI (Sec. 8.4)

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zero-filled-on-demand page fault (Sec. 12.1.3.3)

zoning
        See also Fibre Channel switch