Chapter 10. Processors

Previous chapters have looked at the disk and network components of a system. This chapter covers the processor component. The details of particular processors are dealt with later. This chapter explains the measurements that each version of Solaris makes on a per processor basis. It also discusses the trade-offs made by different multiprocessor architectures.

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