Preface

The Memory and Thread Placement Optimization Developer's Guide provides information on locality groups and the technologies that are available to optimize the use of computing resources in the Solaris operating system.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is intended for use by system administrators, performance engineers, systems programmers, and support engineers, and developers who are writing applications in an environment with multiple CPUs and a non-uniform memory architecture. The programming interfaces and tools that are described in this book give the developer control over the system's behavior and resource allocation.

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Typographic Conventions

The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.

Table P-1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface	Meaning	Example
`AaBbCc123`	The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output	Edit your `.login` file. Use `ls -a` to list all files. `machine_name% you have mail.`
`AaBbCc123`	What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output	`machine_name%` `su` `Password:`
aabbcc123	Placeholder: replace with a real name or value	The command to remove a file is `rm` filename.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. A cache is a copy that is stored locally. Do not save the file. Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default UNIX^® system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P-2 Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell	`machine_name%`
C shell for superuser	`machine_name#`
Bourne shell and Korn shell	`$`
Bourne shell and Korn shell for superuser	`#`