The applications in Solaris Easy Access Server are not certified to run in the Solaris 8 operating environment. If you are running applications from SEAS, you must install the Solaris 8 Admin Pack to ensure that those applications will run properly in the Solaris 8 operating environment.
Several of the applications that are included in SEAS releases are now part of the Solaris 8 operating environment:
Solaris Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) Services
Solaris Print Manager
NetscapeTM Communicator
Java Development Kit (JDKTM)
SolsticeTM DiskSuiteTM
The following SEAS applications have not been certified to run in the Solaris 8 operating environment:
Solstice Internet Mail Server
Sun Directory Services
Sun WebServerTM
Solaris PC NetLink
SunScreenTM SKIP
Solstice NFS Client
Java IDL
Solstice AutoClientTM
Solaris Data Backup Utility
The Solaris 8 operating environment introduces a new file system caching architecture, which subsumes the Solaris 7 Priority Paging functionality. The system variable priority_paging should not be set in the Solaris 8 operating environment, and should be removed from the directory /etc/system when systems are upgraded to the Solaris 8 operating environment.
The new caching architecture removes most of the pressure on the virtual memory system that resulted from file system activity. As a result, the new caching architecture changes the dynamics of the memory paging statistics, which makes observing system memory characteristics simpler. However, several of the statistics report significantly different values, which should be considered when analyzing memory behavior or setting performance monitoring thresholds. The most notable differences are:
The number of page reclaims is higher, which should be considered normal operation during heavy file system activity.
The amount of free memory is higher because the free memory count now includes a large component of the file system cache.
Scan rates are almost zero unless there is a shortage of system-wide available memory. Scanning is no longer used to replace the free list during normal file system I/O.