Thanks for the insight Glenn I never knew why the system would choke when
booting many zones. This validates tests we had run in the past. One thing I
would like to add is that the amount of RAM is important. Our tests on a X4200
with 8GB of RAM showed the same results as your test for the first 500 zones.
But the second 500 zones took an hour to get to the ready state because as RAM
was exhausted the disks started thrashing and slowed down the zones, the last
few zones took minutes to get to the ready state. I believe if I had 16GB of
RAM I would have a 1000 zones and a nice NFS server.
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