Chris Quenelle is a tools developer at Oracle Corp. He's worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun and Oracle for over 15 years. He reads comic books and science fiction, and has more tivos than he can keep track of.

 

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SXDE 5/07 — Solaris Express Developers Edition

A new update to Solaris Express Developer Edition is out. It has the latest and greatest Solaris Nevada build, along with all the development tools you could ever want. Well, I dunno, I can want a lot, but there’s a bunch of tools in there. My favorite parts are Sun Studio 12 and Solaris [...]

Debugging tips for threaded programs on Solaris

Phil Harmon wrote a blog entry over a year ago ( Solaris Threads Tunables ) where he mentioned a list of tunable parameters that you can use to fiddle around with the implementation of Solaris libthread. You can fine tune the spin-lock timeouts, and other timing details. But one of the flags that he mentioned is [...]