Re: [zones-discuss] Will Zones Memory Caps let you specify more than physically installed system memory?

2008-06-17 Thread Jim Nissen
Thanks all! Steve Lawrence wrote: > The total cap of all booted zones can exceed the available ram on the > system. physical memory caps are not reservations. They do not guarantee > any minimum about of physical memory to a zone. > > -Steve L. > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 08:07:26PM -0500, Jim N

Re: [zones-discuss] Will Zones Memory Caps let you specify more than physically installed system memory?

2008-06-17 Thread Steve Lawrence
The total cap of all booted zones can exceed the available ram on the system. physical memory caps are not reservations. They do not guarantee any minimum about of physical memory to a zone. -Steve L. On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 08:07:26PM -0500, Jim Nissen wrote: > Hi all, > Got a question from a

Re: [zones-discuss] Will Zones Memory Caps let you specify more than physically installed system memory?

2008-06-17 Thread Jeff Savit
Purely guessing - I haven't pulled out the doc or looked at the code, there would be no such check, and shouldn't be. The memory cap says how much RAM a zone can have at any one time. When a zone reaches its cap, its resident set gets trimmed to the cap setting. If the amount of RAM belonging

Re: [zones-discuss] Will Zones Memory Caps let you specify more than physically installed system memory?

2008-06-17 Thread Jason King
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Jim Nissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > Got a question from a customer, and can't seem to find an answer. Let's > say they have multiple zones, and are specifying physical memory caps on > all of them. If they have, say, 16GB of memory, is there anything

[zones-discuss] Will Zones Memory Caps let you specify more than physically installed system memory?

2008-06-17 Thread Jim Nissen
Hi all, Got a question from a customer, and can't seem to find an answer. Let's say they have multiple zones, and are specifying physical memory caps on all of them. If they have, say, 16GB of memory, is there anything that will prevent them from telling each zone to use physical memory caps