Chapter1 Solaris Overview
Feature and
architecture
Huimei Lu
[email protected]
Outline
Introduction to Solaris
Solaris Kernel Features
Solaris Kernel Architecture
Solaris 10 Features
Performance and Tracing Tools
Introduction
What is Solaris?
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
A complete operating environment, built on a modular,
dynamic kernel
SOE- Solaris Operating Environment
3 major components:
> SunOS- the kernel
> Windowing desktop environment, CDE default, OpenWindows still
included. Gnome, KDE
> Open Networking Computing
A brief history
BSD UNIX
1982, Sun UNIX 0.7
1983 SunOS 1.0
1992 SunOS 4.1.3
1992 Solaris 2.0
1998 Solaris 7
2000 Solaris 8
2001 Solaris 9
2005 Solaris 10
Outline
Introduction to Solaris
Solaris Kernel Features
Solaris Kernel Architecture
Solaris 10 Features
Performance and Tracing Tools
Solaris Kernel Features
Dynamic
Multithreaded kernel
Preemptive kernel
Multithreaded Process Model
Multiple Scheduling Classes
Including real-time support
Solaris Kernel Features (Contd)
Tightly Integrated File System & Virtual
Memory
Virtual File System
64-bit kernel
32-bit and 64-bit application support
Resource Management
Service Management & Fault Handling
Integrated Networking
The 64-bit Revolution
Outline
Introduction to Solaris
Solaris Kernel Features
Solaris Kernel Architecture
Solaris 10 Features
Performance and Tracing Tools
Solaris kernel Architecture
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Outline
Introduction to Solaris
Solaris Kernel Features
Solaris Kernel Architecture
Solaris 10 Features
Performance and Tracing Tools
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Solaris 10 (The headline grabbers)
Solaris Containers (Zones)
Solaris Dynamic Tracing (dtrace)
Predictive Self Healing
System Management Framework
Fault Management Architecture
Process Rights Management
Premier x86 support
Optimized 64-bit Opteron support
Zetabyte File system (ZFS)
... and much, much more!
(x64)
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Outline
Introduction to Solaris
Solaris Kernel Features
Solaris Kernel Architecture
Solaris 10 Features
Performance and Tracing Tools
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Performance and tracing Tools
Process stats
cputrack - per-processor hw counters
pargs process arguments
pflags process flags
pcred process credentials
pldd process's library dependencies
psig process signal disposition
pstack process stack dump
pmap process memory map
pfiles open files and names
prstat process statistics
ptree process tree
ptime process microstate times
pwdx process working directory
Process control
pgrep grep for processes
pkill kill processes list
pstop stop processes
prun start processes
prctl view/set process resources
pwait wait for process
preap reap a zombie process
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Performance and tracing Tools
(Contd)
Process tracing/debugging
abitrace trace ABI interfaces
dtrace trace the world
mdb debug/control processes
truss trace functions and
system calls
Kernel tracing/debugging
dtrace trace and monitor kernel
lockstat monitor locking statistics
lockstat -k profile kernel
mdb debug live and kernel cores
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Performance and tracing Tools (Contd)
System stats
acctcom process accounting
busstat Bus hardware counters
cpustat CPU hardware counters
iostat IO & NFS statistics
kstat display kernel statistics
mpstat processor statistics
netstat network statistics
nfsstat nfs server stats
sar kitchen sink utility
vmstat virtual memory stats
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Dtrace Dynamic Tracing
Seamless, global view of the system from
user-level thread to kernel
Not reliant on pre-determined trace
points, but dynamic instrumentation
Data aggregation at source minimizes
post processing requirements
Built for live use on production systems
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Dtrace (Contd)
Ease-of-use and instant gratification
engenders serious hypothesis testing
Instrumentation directed by high-level control
language (not unlike AWK or C) for easy
scripting and command line use
Comprehensive probe coverage and
powerful data
management allow for concise answers to
arbitrary questions
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Modular Debugger - mdb(1)
Solaris
8 mdb(1) replaces adb(1) and crash(1M)
Allows for examining a live, running system, as well as
post-mortem (dump) analysis
Solaris 9 mdb(1) adds...
Extensive support for debugging of processes
/etc/crash and adb removed
Symbol information via compressed typed data
Documentation
MDB
Developers Guide
mdb implements a rich API set for writing custom dcmds
Provides a framework for kernel code developers to integrate with mdb(1)
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References
Jim Mauro, Richard McDougall. Solaris Internals-Core Kernel
Components. Sun Microsystems Press, 2000
Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro, SOLARISTM Kernel
Performance, Observability & Debugging. Tutorial at
UNENIX05.
Solaris 10 Whats New, Sun Microsystems Press, December
2005
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