[zones-discuss] Memory reservation

2009-01-08 Thread Pascal Fortin
Hi all, I guess the answer is no but i want to have your opinion on this stuff. Is there a way to guarantee a minimum amount of memory for the global zone? This is to prevent all memory being catched by other zones and eventually you can't do anything to free this memory. Due to the shortage

[zones-discuss] questions regarding Zones Upgrade Permanent Solution thanks (case 11340032)

2009-01-08 Thread Chunhuan . Shen
Hi experts, I would like consult you some questions regarding Zones Upgrade Permanent Solution(PSARC/2006/167 and PSARC/2003/460) In the description of Patch 119254-59, there is the following info. Patch ID: 119254-59 Title: SunOS 5.10: Install and Patch Utilities Patch NOTE 5: In order to

Re: [zones-discuss] Memory reservation

2009-01-08 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Pascal Fortin wrote: Hi all, I guess the answer is no but i want to have your opinion on this stuff. Is there a way to guarantee a minimum amount of memory for the global zone? This is to prevent all memory being catched by other zones and eventually you can't do anything to free this

Re: [zones-discuss] Memory reservation

2009-01-08 Thread Pascal Fortin
Hi Jerry, Thanks for your response. This is not overprovisioned system but you can have a bug somewhere that lead to use all memory and, of course, you have to correct it. But all other zones in the system will suffer from this situation and in consolidation context, it's annoying. As the

Re: [zones-discuss] Memory reservation

2009-01-08 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Pascal Fortin wrote: Hi Jerry, Thanks for your response. This is not overprovisioned system but you can have a bug somewhere that lead to use all memory and, of course, you have to correct it. But all other zones in the system will suffer from this situation and in consolidation

Re: [zones-discuss] Memory reservation

2009-01-08 Thread Pascal Fortin
If you have a system with a fixed number of zones, you can distribute the total amount of memory to the zones except what you want to reserve. If you don't know how many zones you will have or on which system your zone will be run, you can't easily manage how many memory you will cap to your

Re: [zones-discuss] Memory reservation

2009-01-08 Thread Jerry Jelinek
Pascal Fortin wrote: If you have a system with a fixed number of zones, you can distribute the total amount of memory to the zones except what you want to reserve. If you don't know how many zones you will have or on which system your zone will be run, you can't easily manage how many