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Memory and Thread Placement Optimization Developer's Guide

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Updated: December 2018
 
 
Chapter 2

MPO Observability Tools

This chapter describes the tools that are available to use the MPO functionality that is available in the Oracle Solaris operating system.

    This chapter discusses the following topics:

  • pmadvise Utility describes the tool that applies rules that define the memory use of a process.

  • Using the madv.so.1 Shared Object describes the madv.so.1 shared object and how to use it to configure virtual memory advice.

  • plgrp Tool describes the tool that can display and set a thread's affinity for a locality group.

  • lgrpinfo Tool prints information about the lgroup hierarchy, contents, and characteristics.

  • "Solaris::lgrp" Module describes a Perl interface to the locality group API that is described in Locality Group APIs.