jerry - I'm always assuming there is contention for resources, its not REAL interesting if there is no contention and in this case there is none......
thanx, for the insight... rich Jerry Jelinek wrote: > Victor Feng wrote: > >> Given the importance of zones and some other info, is there any formula to >> calculate the number of CPUs that system will allocate to each zone? >> >> e.g. >> Following system has only two zones with dynamic pool service enabled. >> Total number of CPU in the system is 32. >> >> # zonecfg -z zoneA info dedicated-cpu >> dedicated-cpu: >> ncpus: 4-8 >> importance: 80 >> >> # zonecfg -z zoneB info dedicated-cpu >> dedicated-cpu: >> ncpus: 4-8 >> importance: 5 >> >> zoneA has 8 CPU-intense processes running, e.g. dd if=/dev/zero >> of=/dev/null, >> zoneB has 8 CPU-intense processes running too. >> Global zone has two such processes. Global zone is not configured, so its >> importance is 1 by default. >> > > In this example the importance doesn't matter since > you have more processors that you have allocated. > That is, both zones are busy but they are limited > to a maximum of 8 CPUs, so they should each eventually > get assigned 8 CPUs for a total of 16, leaving 16 CPUs > in the default pool for the global zone to use. > > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
