System Administration Guide: Virtualization Using the Solaris Operating System
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Document Information

Preface

Solaris Virtualization Product Overview

Part I Resource Management

1.  Introduction to Solaris Resource Management

2.  Projects and Tasks (Overview)

3.  Administering Projects and Tasks

4.  Extended Accounting (Overview)

5.  Administering Extended Accounting (Tasks)

6.  Resource Controls (Overview)

7.  Administering Resource Controls (Tasks)

8.  Fair Share Scheduler (Overview)

9.  Administering the Fair Share Scheduler (Tasks)

10.  Physical Memory Control Using the Resource Capping Daemon (Overview)

11.  Administering the Resource Capping Daemon (Tasks)

Setting the Resident Set Size Cap

How to Add an rcap.max-rss Attribute for a Project

How to Use the projmod Command to Add an rcap.max-rss Attribute for a Project

Configuring and Using the Resource Capping Daemon (Task Map)

Administering the Resource Capping Daemon With rcapadm

How to Set the Memory Cap Enforcement Threshold

How to Set Operation Intervals

How to Enable Resource Capping

How to Disable Resource Capping

Producing Reports With rcapstat

12.  Resource Pools (Overview)

13.  Creating and Administering Resource Pools (Tasks)

14.  Resource Management Configuration Example

15.  Resource Control Functionality in the Solaris Management Console

Part II Zones

16.  Introduction to Solaris Zones

17.  Non-Global Zone Configuration (Overview)

18.  Planning and Configuring Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

19.  About Installing, Halting, Cloning, and Uninstalling Non-Global Zones (Overview)

20.  Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling, and Cloning Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

21.  Non-Global Zone Login (Overview)

22.  Logging In to Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

23.  Moving and Migrating Non-Global Zones (Tasks)

24.  About Packages and Patches on a Solaris System With Zones Installed (Overview)

25.  Adding and Removing Packages and Patches on a Solaris System With Zones Installed (Tasks)

26.  Solaris Zones Administration (Overview)

27.  Administering Solaris Zones (Tasks)

28.  Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Solaris Zones Problems

Part III Branded Zones

29.  About Branded Zones and the Linux Branded Zone

30.  Planning the lx Branded Zone Configuration (Overview)

31.  Configuring the lx Branded Zone (Tasks)

32.  About Installing, Booting, Halting, Cloning, and Uninstalling lx Branded Zones (Overview)

33.  Installing, Booting, Halting, Uninstalling and Cloning lx Branded Zones (Tasks)

34.  Logging In to lx Branded Zones (Tasks)

35.  Moving and Migrating lx Branded Zones (Tasks)

36.  Administering and Running Applications in lx Branded Zones (Tasks)

Part IV Sun xVM

37.  Sun xVM Hypervisor System Requirements

38.  Booting and Running the Sun xVM Hypervisor

39.  Xvnc

40.  Using virt-install to Install a Domain

41.  xVM System Administration

42.  Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Sun xVM Problems

Glossary

Index

Configuring and Using the Resource Capping Daemon (Task Map)

Task

Description

For Instructions

Set the memory cap enforcement threshold.

Configure a cap that will be enforced when the physical memory available to processes is low.

How to Set the Memory Cap Enforcement Threshold

Set the operation interval.

The interval is applied to the periodic operations performed by the resource capping daemon.

How to Set Operation Intervals

Enable resource capping.

Activate resource capping on your system.

How to Enable Resource Capping

Disable resource capping.

Deactivate resource capping on your system.

How to Disable Resource Capping

Report cap and project information.

View example commands for producing reports.

Reporting Cap and Project Information

Monitor a project's resident set size.

Produce a report on the resident set size of a project.

Monitoring the RSS of a Project

Determine a project's working set size.

Produce a report on the working set size of a project.

Determining the Working Set Size of a Project

Report on memory utilization and memory caps.

Print a memory utilization and cap enforcement line at the end of the report for each interval.

Reporting Memory Utilization and the Memory Cap Enforcement Threshold
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