Chapter 13. Working with Multiple Page Sizes in Solaris

This chapter introduces a strategy for measuring the potential performance gain that could be yielded from an increase in page size. We begin by discussing a powerful Solaris tool, TRapstat, for easily quantifying the potential gains of using a larger page size. We discuss "TRapstat(1M)." on page 640. We then follow by discussing legacy methods to estimate the gain in Solaris 8 by use of the cpustat command.