Our current workload consists of a dozen Linux Oracle servers in a 1-cpu LPAR.
CPU usage stays around 50% with very occasional spikes to 100%. I feel we have
good resource allocation for these servers via SHARE REL. Default MAX is NOLIMIT
and my question is whether LIMITSOFT would be of any
If NOLIMIT is set then it's possible for the share leftover when everyone has
had their SHARE satisfied can be consumed by a single virtual machine. Using
LIMITSOFT means this leftover will be shared according to the value set.
Imagine an apple pie. After everyone has had 1 slice and there's
