Chapter 4

Solaris 9 Resource Manager Topics

The section contains the following chapters on resource management in the Solaris operating environment.

Chapter 5, Introduction to Solaris 9 Resource Manager	Provides an overview of resource management and discusses why you would want to use the functionality on your system
Chapter 6, Projects and Tasks	Covers the project and task facilities and describes how they are used to label and separate workloads
Chapter 7, Extended Accounting	Describes the extended accounting functionality that is used to capture detailed resource consumption statistics for capacity planning or billing purposes
Chapter 8, Resource Controls	Discusses resource controls, which are used to place bounds on resource usage by applications that run on your system
Chapter 9, Fair Share Scheduler	Describes the fair share scheduler, which uses shares to specify the amounts of CPU time that is allocated to processes that run on your system
Chapter 10, Resource Pools	Describes resource pools, which are used to partition system resources and guarantee that a known amount of resources are always available to a specified workload that runs on your system
Chapter 11, Resource Management Configuration Example	Describes a hypothetical server consolidation project
Chapter 12, Resource Control Functionality in the Solaris Management Console	Describes the resource management functionality available in the Solaris Management Console tool