Brendan Gregg

Richard McDougall is a senior staff engineer in the Performance Applications Engineering Group at Sun Microsystems, focusing on enterprise systems architecture, large system performance, and OS technology.

Jim Mauro is a senior staff engineer in the Performance, Architecture, and Applications Engineering group at Sun Microsystems, where his most recent efforts have focused on Solaris performance on Opteron platforms, specifically in the area of file system and raw disk IO performance.

Brendan Gregg is a Solaris consultant and instructor teaching classes for Sun Microsystems across Australia and Asia. He is also an OpenSolaris contributor and community leader, and has written numerous software packages, including the DTraceToolkit.

Jim Mauro

JIM MAURO has 20 years of industry experience with UNIX systems. Jim is a senior engineer in the Performance Applications Engineering group at Sun Microsystems. When Jim is not wrestling with his two sons, his house, or his yard, he works on systems and applications availability and resource management-related projects for Sun.

RICHARD McDOUGALL is a senior engineer in the Performance Applications Engineering group at Sun Microsystems, focusing on enterprise systems architecture, large system performance, and OS technology. He has been known to have some knowledge of operating system architecture and internals. When Richard isn't tinkering with cars or racing karts, he is usually found analyzing system performance, contributing to Solaris development, and developing tools for measurement, monitoring, tracing, and sizing UNIX systems.

Richard McDougall

RICHARD Mc DOUGALL has over 11 years of UNIX experience, including application design, kernel development, and performance analysis, and specializes in operating system tools and architecture.