Re: [zones-discuss] Zones CPU resource management

2008-09-02 Thread Jeff Victor
See http://tinyurl.com/5jwe3l , but here's the brief version: Basic, which can be modified by the owner of the calling process Privileged, which can be modified only by privileged (superuser) callers System, which is fixed for the duration of the operating system instance On Tu

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones CPU resource management

2008-09-02 Thread Vincent Boisard
Thanks for your help, Comments below ... On 9/2/08, Jeff Victor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Vincent, > > From your message, it appears that you do not need to use capped-cpu. > However, if you find that you have a need to use both, it will work, > although there is potential to confuse S

Re: [zones-discuss] [caiman-discuss] SNAP zones layout proposal.

2008-09-02 Thread Ethan Quach
Mike Gerdts wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Ethan Quach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Jerry, >> >> If its not for general purpose, then yes, I agree /ROOT is >> more clear. ?(And I also agree about the rpool name) >> >> Regarding a general purpose dataset, IMO we need to always aut

Re: [zones-discuss] [smf-discuss] Possible solution to automated installation of "single user" patches

2008-09-02 Thread Jordan Brown
Narendra Kumar S.S wrote: > Is there any particular reason, why you are not proposing to move > filesystem/local to single-user milestone. That was option #1 in my list. However, there were those who objected to changing the definition of single-user mode in this way. In addition, there

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones CPU resource management

2008-09-02 Thread Jeff Victor
Hello Vincent, >From your message, it appears that you do not need to use capped-cpu. However, if you find that you have a need to use both, it will work, although there is potential to confuse Solaris and/or yourself. For example, what happens if you set cpu-shares so that a zone must get at leas

[zones-discuss] Zones CPU resource management

2008-09-02 Thread Vincent Boisard
hello, I am currently setting up a home server. It will be my main storage server, but I will also be consolidating other applications on it (voip server, video streaming, app server, ...) I plan to use a Quad-core processor (namely the Q6600) with 8GB of RAM. I have been reading all the docs I c

Re: [zones-discuss] [smf-discuss] Possible solution to automated installation of "single user" patches

2008-09-02 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 07:13:56PM +0200, Renaud Manus wrote: > Sure :-) > > Both Sun Cluster and AVS introduce new services. Some of them > (eg. global-devices & system/nws_scm) are dependent on > milestone/single-user and add filesystem/local as their dependent. > > If we were to move filesyste