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Maximize speed of disk

I have a Solaris 10 system installed on the following system

uname -a

SunOS lab135881 5.10 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000

prtconf

System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u

Memory size: 2048 Megabytes

System Peripherals (Software Nodes):

SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000

....

On this machine I have 40 process that made hard use of the disk (a lot of read an write)

These process seems to me more "slowly" in performance compared to the same processes installed on AIX or Linux machine with similar hardware specs

The disk that is installed on my SUN machine is

ST336605FSUN36G

There are some special tuning that could I make in order to improve the disk speed?

[751 byte] By [_msalvi_] at [2007-11-25 23:40:19]
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This is one of the (IMO) strong points of the Solaris OS. Its highly customizable and tunable. The current 10 release doesn't depend on this as much as its ancestors (one of the rumours on where "slowaris" came from is users who installed the OS but never bothered to read up on tuning and configuring).

Whatever you do, be very carefull. You can change a lot but not all changes may give you the wanted results. For now I'd recommend http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-0404 which describes this process in a little more detail. I'd like to stress out to be very carefull here.

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