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McDougall, Richard. Solaris performance and tools : DTrace and MDB techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris / Richard McDougall, Jim Mauro, Brendan Gregg. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-13-156819-1 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Solaris (Computer file) 2. Operating systems (Computers) I. Mauro, Jim. II. Gregg, Brendan. III. Title. QA76.76.O63M3957 2006 005.4’32—dc22 200602013
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