I didn't mention in my posting that I also removed the privilege net_mac_aware from the zones. Otherwise, it results in many more lofs mounts and therefore increases the size of mnttab. This causes more system events to be generated which keeps the HAL daemon very busy. This only affects Nevada.
I posted this on a public forum because I wanted to make it more visible. The responsible engineers for this code don't see this as a big deal, but it is obviously important to you. --Glenn David Gaines wrote: > 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. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > security-discuss mailing list > security-discuss at opensolaris.org >
