Internals, Second Edition, provides us a fantastic means to be able to quickly understand these systems and further explore the Solaris architecture - especially when coupled with OpenSolaris source availability. " - Jarod Jenson, chief systems architect, Aeysis "The Solaris? Internal volumes by Jim Mauro and Richard McDougall must be on your bookshelf if you're interested in-depth knowledge in a Solaris operating system internal and architectural administrator. Internal only comprehensive source for kernel developers, programmers, system and the new second edition,. with the companion performance and debugging book, is an indispensable reference set, containing useful and practical explanations of Solaris and its underlying subsystems, including tools and methods for observing and analyzing any system running Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris. " - Marc Strahl, senior UNIX engineer Solaris? Internals, Second Edition, describes the algorithms and data structures of all major subsystems in the Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris kernels. Integrated Solaris tools and utilities, including DTrace, MDB, kstat, and process tools, which are used throughout to illustrate how the reader can observe the Solaris kernel in action.