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Operating Systems Solaris Global and non-global zone resource sharing - tricky Post 302962684 by Peasant on Thursday 17th of December 2015 10:42:36 AM
Old 12-17-2015
Well, rule of thumb is not to run applications in global zone.
Exception could be backup software or monitoring/log shipment software..

Is there any practical reason not to have that application running in non-global zone ?

Personally, i use FSS scheduler with global/non-global zones and control the CPU resources using shares. Global zone has 1 share by default.

Shares are bit different then CPU caps you are using.. for instance you have 10 shares of CPU (when used 100% all 10 shares are used) running 1 global zone and 2 zones.

You set 6 and 3 cpu shares for two non-global zones (1 is for global zone), which means that zone with 6 shares will get 60% of CPU in case of CPU resource contention.
Otherwise it can use all the CPU.

So FSS guarantees CPU time in mentioned relation.
10 CPU share = 100 % CPU, global zone : zone1 : zone2 = 1:6:3

10 is a number you choose, you can choose 100 as well as any other number which will represent maximum CPU time which you will divide among zones.

I found this to be most effective in terms of harnessing CPU power when needed by single zone so far and giving guarantees if things go bananas.

Of course, you can change that as administrator from global zone, even on runtime, using prctl effectively giving additional CPU shares to a zone or a single process.

Hope that helps
Regards
Peasant.
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ZPRINT(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 ZPRINT(1)

NAME
zprint -- show information about kernel zones SYNOPSIS
zprint [-cdhlLstw] [name] DESCRIPTION
zprint displays data about Mach zones (allocation buckets). By default, zprint will print out information about all Mach zones. If the optional name is specified, zprint will print information about each zone for which name is a substring of the zone's name. zprint interprets the following options: -c (Default) zprint prints zone info in columns. Long zone names are truncated with '$', and spaces are replaced with '.', to allow for sorting by column. Pageable and collectible zones are shown with 'P' and 'C' on the far right, respectively. Zones with pre- posterously large maximum sizes are shown with '----' in the max size and max num elts fields. -d Display deltas over time, showing any zones that have achieved a new maximum current allocation size during the interval. If the total allocation sizes are being displayed for the zones in question, it will also display the deltas if the total allocations have doubled. -h (Default) Shows headings for the columns printed with the -c option. It may be useful to override this option when sorting by column. -l (Default) Show all wired memory information after the zone information. -L Do not show all wired memory information after the zone information. -s zprint sorts the zones, showing the zone wasting the most memory first. -t For each zone, zprint calculates the total size of allocations from the zone over the life of the zone. -w For each zone, zprint calculates how much space is allocated but not currently in use, the space wasted by the zone. Any option (including default options) can be overridden by specifying the option in upper-case; for example, -C overrides the default option -c. DIAGNOSTICS
The zprint utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. SEE ALSO
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