Solaris Operating System Availability Features

This paper provides detailed discussion regarding the algorithm, implementation, kernel tunables, and messages you are likely to see on a system running the appropriate kernel updates.The processor offlining feature enables a processor to be removed from use by Solaris in response to one or more L2 cache errors. The page retirement feature enables a page of memory to be removed from use by Solaris in response to repeated ECC errors within a memory page on a DIMM. This article is ideal for an intermediate to advanced reader.