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MAC (media access control)  
MAC address  
major page faults  
majority consensus algorithm (Solstice DiskSuite)  
Manchester encoding  
mapping caches  
MAR (memory address register)  
master ports  
MAU (medium attachment unit)  
maxcontig filesystem parameter  
maximum segment size (MSS), TCP packets  
maximum transmission unit (MTU)  
maxpgio, kernel variable tuning  
maxusers parameter  
       kernel tables  
MB (megabyte)  
MBus architecture  
md package (Linux RAID array management)  
MDR (memory data register)  
Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF)  
Mean Time To Data Inaccessibility (MTTDI)  
Mean Time To Data Loss (MTTDL)  
Mean Time To Repair (MTTR)  
measurements, rationale for  
media access control (MAC)  
medium attachment unit (MAU)  
megabyte (MB)  
megaflops (MFLOPS)  
megahertz (MHz)  
memory   [See also virtual memory]
       access time  
       address space layout  
       addressing limitations  
       associative mapping  
       benchmarking
               Linpack benchmark  
               tools  
       cache access times  
       cache lines  
       caches and hierarchy  
       characteristics  
       consumption considerations   2nd  
       cycle time  
       data path bits  
       data transfer measurement methods  
       demand paging  
       direct cache mapping  
       filesystem caching  
                bdflush command  
               cyclic caching  
               disk interaction constraints  
               fsflush command  
               priority paging  
       free list  
       hardware-based RAID array management  
       interleaving  
       intimately shared memory  
       kernel memory allocation errors  
       lm benchmark  
       management, Linux  
       modules, types of  
       monitoring
               memstat command  
               sar command  
               vmstat command  
       NFS requirements  
       NVRAM, NFS and  
       page coloring  
       page scanner  
       paging  
       paging compared to swapping  
       performance metrics  
       physical implementation  
       process accounting  
       process utilization, displaying  
       processes
               monitoring consumption  
               ps command  
               uax command  
       processor caches  
       requirements
               determining  
               estimating  
       speed compared to processor speed  
       STREAM benchmark  
       swap space  
               anonymous memory  
               monitoring  
               optimizing  
               sizing  
       swapping  
               effect on interactive performance  
       system performance, effect on  
       TLB (transaction lookaside buffer)  
       uncacheable areas  
       virtual address spaces  
       web servers  
       workgroup servers and  
memory address register (MAR)  
memory data register (MDR)  
memory management unit (MMU)  
memory system (von Neumann model)  
memstat command, memory monitoring  
Message fragmentation needed (ICMP error)  
message passing patterns (networks)  
metadata logging (filesystems)  
metadb command, Solstice DiskSuite state databases  
metadevices  
metainformation database (Solstice DiskSuite)  
metamirrors (Solaris DiskSuite)  
metattach command, Solaris DiskSuite  
metrics, memory performance  
MFLOPS (megaflops)  
MHz (megahertz)  
microprocessors   [See processors]
microSPARC processors, memory page size  
microstate accounting  
       enabling  
migrating ext2fs to ext3fs  
minfree filesystem parameter  
minor page faults  
MIPS (millions of instructions per second)  
MIPS processors, memory page size  
mirrored striping  
mirroring disks  
       disk replacement  
       Linux md package  
       Solaris DiskSuite  
miss cost (memory cache)  
mkinitrd command, RAID arrays, booting  
mkraid device command, Linux md package  
MMU (memory management unit)  
MMX extensions (Intel)  
monacct command, process accounting  
Motorola PowerPC processors, memory page size  
mount command
       journaling mode, setting  
       logging option  
       options to CacheFS  
mounting network filesystems  
mounts, NFS (Network File System), nesting  
mpstat command
       mutex information  
       processor statistics  
MSS (maximum segment size), TCP packets  
MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure)  
MTTDI (Mean Time To Data Inaccessibility)  
MTTDL (Mean Time To Data Loss)  
MTTR (Mean Time To Repair)  
MTU (maximum transmission unit)  
MTU (message transfer unit), TCP packets and  
multi-initiator SCSI  
multi-word DMA  
multimode fiber  
multiporting  
multiprocessor systems   [See also processors; SMP]2nd  
       application behavior  
        busses  
       caches  
       communication basics   2nd  
       crossbars  
       Fireplane (Sun)  
       interconnectionless architectures  
       load average statistic  
       optimum processor load considerations  
       process queues  
       processor statistics
               mpstat command  
       thread synchronization  
       threads  
multitasking  
mutexes  
       lockstat command  
       mpstat command  
       processor load and  
mutual exclusion locks (mutexes)