When PCI Express fabrics are configured properly, PCIe protocol efficiency and performance can be improved in OpenSolaris. Consider a device's payload capabilities as one of the performance parameters when configuring.
Sun engineers recently updated this article to include the Java VisualVM tool. Read about Java SE 6 platform observability improvements specific to the Solaris OS.
If you have ZFS file systems mounted on other ZFS file systems, you may sometimes get error messages because the ZFS file systems mount out of order. This script can help you sort through mount issues associated with large numbers of ZFS datasets.
New from Bernd Schemmer on our community wiki: Use the new fiocompress and dcfs utilities in the Solaris 10 10/08 OS for SPARC platforms to create compressed files on UFS file systems.
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