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Book Recommendation for Solaris Perf Monitoring?

I'm looking for a good Solaris performance monitoring book. I work primarily with Solaris 9, but will also be working with 10, so a dtrace chapter would also be good. Any insight would be much appreciated.

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It is quite out of date, but the classic is Sun Performance and Tuning by Adrian Cockroft.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/013...books&v=glance

There is a very powerful set of monitoring tools called SE Toolkit from Cockroft and Richard McDougall you can check out here:

http://www.sunfreeware.com/setoolkit.html

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Not directly dealing with SUNs, but a great introduction to performance tuning in general:

"System Performance Tuning" by Mike Loukides, O'Reilly, Nov. 1990,
ISBN 0-937175-60-9

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a good overview from the "Sys Admin" guys : "Unix Performance Tuning"
for < $10

# Publisher: CMP Books; Bk&Disk edition (April 1, 1997)
# Language: English
# ISBN: 0879304707

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I see most of the books are not very recent. I know that there are programs and concepts that are still very valid, but I'm looking for something more recent. Maybe there's just nothing out there...

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