The Solaris Performance ToolsCD is a project of the Sun Solution and Benchmark Center Frankfurt since 1999.Horst Leitner has been driving this effort and acted as chief editor for this free ware, open source, public domain compilation. All rights are with the Sun Solution Center Germany. Please read the copy right section on the CD.
This is release of the ToolsCD with the focus on Solaris 10 support for SPARC and x86/x64 based Sun systems. The CD covers within 300 MB:
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dimSTAT v8.1 - collect and analyze performance data
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Dtrace Tools - Brendan Gregg's collection of Dtrace scripts
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K9Toolkit - freeware tools written using the KStat library on a Solaris 9
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sysperfstat - displays utilization and saturation for CPU, memory, disk and network, all on one line.
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cpuinfo - displays CPU configuration (number, type, clock and strands)
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meminfo - displays configuration of physical memory and swap devices or files
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iobar - displays io for disk-devices in a |cpubar|-like fashion
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iotop - displays |iostat -x| in a |top|-like fashion
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checkcable - prints the link up status for network interfaces
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nicstat - prints statistics for the network interfaces such as KBytes/s read and write, Packets/s etc.
The Solaris Performance Primer is discussing the tools as well as a general purpose Solaris tools in more detail.
The CD is available as a zipped 256MB download ISO image.
A few things are outdated on the CD. You will want to get them from different places: