Re: [zones-discuss] Will Zones Memory Caps let you specify more than physically installed system memory?

2008-06-17 Thread Jim Nissen
Thanks all! Steve Lawrence wrote: > The total cap of all booted zones can exceed the available ram on the > system. physical memory caps are not reservations. They do not guarantee > any minimum about of physical memory to a zone. > > -Steve L. > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 08:07:26PM -0500, Jim N

Re: [zones-discuss] need input for zone update on attach

2008-06-17 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Jerry Jelinek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the original system is still available, you can work > around this by removing the IDR before migrating the zone. Is it feasible to "simply" remove it as part of attaching? I don't think that it is possible to install

[zones-discuss] Will exclusive IP allow for TCP /etc/system settings?

2008-06-17 Thread Jim Nissen
Will Solaris 10 Zones, with exclusive IP, allow one to set NGZ TCP tunables, like tcp_conn_req_max_q? ___ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zones-discuss] Will Zones Memory Caps let you specify more than physically installed system memory?

2008-06-17 Thread Steve Lawrence
The total cap of all booted zones can exceed the available ram on the system. physical memory caps are not reservations. They do not guarantee any minimum about of physical memory to a zone. -Steve L. On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 08:07:26PM -0500, Jim Nissen wrote: > Hi all, > Got a question from a

Re: [zones-discuss] Will Zones Memory Caps let you specify more than physically installed system memory?

2008-06-17 Thread Jeff Savit
Purely guessing - I haven't pulled out the doc or looked at the code, there would be no such check, and shouldn't be. The memory cap says how much RAM a zone can have at any one time. When a zone reaches its cap, its resident set gets trimmed to the cap setting. If the amount of RAM belonging

Re: [zones-discuss] Will Zones Memory Caps let you specify more than physically installed system memory?

2008-06-17 Thread Jason King
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Jim Nissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > Got a question from a customer, and can't seem to find an answer. Let's > say they have multiple zones, and are specifying physical memory caps on > all of them. If they have, say, 16GB of memory, is there anything

[zones-discuss] Will Zones Memory Caps let you specify more than physically installed system memory?

2008-06-17 Thread Jim Nissen
Hi all, Got a question from a customer, and can't seem to find an answer. Let's say they have multiple zones, and are specifying physical memory caps on all of them. If they have, say, 16GB of memory, is there anything that will prevent them from telling each zone to use physical memory caps

[zones-discuss] need input for zone update on attach

2008-06-17 Thread Jerry Jelinek
During testing of the zone "update on attach" feature we have encountered a problem with IDRs on S10. If you are not familiar with an IDR, it is a temporary, one-time patch that is issued to try to solve a problem before an official patch is released. Because these are temporary, one-time patches

Re: [zones-discuss] Zone boot/reboot hooks

2008-06-17 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Tim, Tim Spriggs wrote: > Hi, > > I want to file an RFE but I thought I should discuss a little before > I do: I would like a way to run a script in the global zone when a > non-global zone boots. My use case is: We actually have a way to get this information. This is described in the fol