Re: [zones-discuss] Dynamically chaninging zone.cpu-shares has no effect

2008-11-25 Thread Rainer Orth
Hi Jeff, > > There are four single-threaded processes in the global zone, each of which > > could consume a whole core (the box has 4 dual-core cpus), but still the > > global zone remains at ca. 50% cpu consumption. > > Solaris sees this as an 8-CPU system. A single-threaded process can't sorr

Re: [zones-discuss] Dynamically chaninging zone.cpu-shares has no effect

2008-11-25 Thread Jeff Victor
Hi Rainer, (see below) On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Rainer Orth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've recently tried to temporarily change zone.cpu-shares of the global > zone on a Sun Fire X4200 M2 running Solaris 10 Update 5. Per default, both > the global and the imap zone have 10 shares: > >

[zones-discuss] Dynamically chaninging zone.cpu-shares has no effect

2008-11-25 Thread Rainer Orth
I've recently tried to temporarily change zone.cpu-shares of the global zone on a Sun Fire X4200 M2 running Solaris 10 Update 5. Per default, both the global and the imap zone have 10 shares: global% zonecfg -z global info rctl rctl: name: zone.cpu-shares value: (priv=privileged,l