How This Book Is Organized
This book is organized into chapters, an appendix, and a glossary.
Chapter 1, Overview provides an introduction to Solaris Resource Manager and describes how this product can be used to allocate and control major system resources.
Chapter 2, Normal Operations discusses the operation of the Solaris Resource Manager software and illustrates a simple hierarchy.
Chapter 3, Configuration describes how to configure the Solaris Resource Manager software on your Solaris system.
Chapter 4, Boot Procedure describes the effects of the Solaris boot procedure on the Solaris Resource Manager product.
Chapter 5, Managing Lnodes discusses the per-user structure introduced in Solaris Resource Manager.
Chapter 6, SHR Scheduler discusses the scheduler, which is used to control the allocation of the CPU resource.
Chapter 7, Memory Limits, Process Memory Limits, and Process Count Limits describes how to control the amount of virtual memory held by users and individual processes.
Chapter 8, Physical Memory Management Using the Resource Capping Daemon discusses how to regulate the resource consumption of physical memory by collections of processes. This feature is only available in the Solaris 8 operating environment.
Chapter 9, Usage Data describes the mechanism for collecting accrued usage values for CPU, application, and user resources.
Chapter 10, Advanced Usage describes batch process control, databases, web server management, and processor sets in detail and provides usage examples. It also describes configuration in a SunTM Cluster 3.0 update environment.
Chapter 11, Troubleshooting provides assistance in diagnosing problems in the operation of Solaris Resource Manager.
Chapter 12, Notification Messages describes possible error messages and their meanings.
Appendix A, Solaris Resource Manager Code Examples provides sample scripts.
Glossary is a list of words and phrases found in this book and their definitions.
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