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Pt. One. Observability Methods

Ch. 1. Introduction to Observability Tools

Ch. 2. CPUs

Ch. 3. Processes

Ch. 4. Disk Behavior and Analysis

Ch. 5. File Systems

Ch. 6. Memory

Tools for Memory Analysis

vmstat(1M) Command

Types of Paging

Physical Memory Allocation

Relieving Memory Pressure

Scan Rate as a Memory Health Indicator

Process Virtual and Resident Set Size

Using pmap to Inspect Process Memory Usage

Calculating Process Memory Usage with ps and pmap

Displaying Page-Size Information with pmap

Using DTrace for Memory Analysis

Obtaining Memory Kstats

Using the Perl Kstat API to Look at Memory Statistics

System Memory Allocation Kstats

Kernel Memory with kstat

System Paging Kstats

Observing MMU Performance Impact with trapstat

Swap Space

Ch. 7. Networks

Ch. 8. Performance Counters

Ch. 9. Kernel Monitoring

Pt. Two. Observability Infrastructure

Chapter 6. Memory

In this chapter we discuss the major tools used for memory analysis. We detail the methodology behind the use of the tools and the interpretation of the metrics.

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Part One: Observability Methods > Memory

Chapter 6. Memory