SA-327-S10 --- Dynamic Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting With DTrace
Overview
The Troubleshooting to Improve Performance Using DTrace for Sys Admins course provides students with the ability to use DTrace to diagnose application and system problems.
Objectives
The Troubleshooting to Improve Performance Using DTrace for Sys Admins course provides students with the ability to use DTrace to diagnose application and system problems.
LAB INFORMATION: The hands-on labs offered in this course may involve accessing equipment that resides at a location other than where the training is delivered.
PreRequisites
- System Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System, Part 2 (SA-202-S10)
- Administer the Solaris 10 Operating System
- General understanding of operating systems
- Ability to read and write scripts
Who Can Benefit
Experienced System Administrators and Service Support Personnel
This course counts towards the Hands-on course requirement for the Oracle Solaris 10 System Administrator Certification. Only instructor-led inclass or instructor-led online formats of this course will meet the Certification Hands-on Requirement. Self Study CD-Rom and Knowledge Center courses DO NOT meet the Hands-on Requi
Duration
3 days
Dynamic Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting With DTrace (SA-327-S10) Content Details
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- Describe the features of DTrace
- Describe the DTrace architecture
- Overview of how DTrace works
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- Examining performance problems using DTrace
- Use DTrace to obtain information about system calls
- Create D Scripts
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| Finding System Problems with DTrace |
- Use DTrace to access kernel variables
- Use DTrace to obtain information about I/O
- Use DTrace to do anonymous tracing
- Use DTrace to do speculative tracing
- Explain privileges necessary to run DTrace
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| Troubleshooting DTrace Problems |
- Describe how to lessen performance impact of DTrace
- Describe how to use and tune DTrace buffers
- Debug DTrace scripts
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| The DTrace Toolkit and Case Studies |
- Overview of the DTrace Toolkit
- Top 10 most useful scripts
- Case Study - Application using excessive CPU time
- Case Study - Application Throughput is Slow
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