moving on... Step 3: process introspection; Step 4: process monitoring with prstat.

... new to Solaris?
Step 1: Explore your system;
Step 2: measure system utilization. More to follow.

A great week end to everyone! Stefan

 Jeff Taylor provided a nice writeup of tuning a real application using visualgc. It goes much deeper compared to the Java primer I wrote a while ago.

Good presentation (http://bit.ly/97vOvN) on how to win customers while doing software development. Well rounded presentation to learn how agile development works for startups and it helps winning VCs. Thanks to my old friend Mehdi Ghazizadeh who pointed me to it.

Dimitri got dimstat 8.5 out. It now includes monitoring for InnoDB and a whole bunch of MySQL Add-Ons.

For the ones who haven't yet used it. It's an excellent, free and platform independent systems monitoring tool: