opensolaris man page for poold

poold(1M)						  System Administration Commands						 poold(1M)

NAME
       poold - automated resource pools partitioning daemon

SYNOPSIS
       poold [-l level]

DESCRIPTION
       poold  provides automated resource partitioning facilities. poold can be enabled or disabled using the Solaris Service Management Facility,
       smf(5). poold requires the Resource Pools facility to be active in order to operate.

       The dynamic resource pools service's fault management resource identifier (FMRI) is:

	 svc:/system/pools/dynamic

       The resource pools service's FMRI is:

	 svc:/system/pools

       poold's configuration details are held in a libpool(3LIB) configuration and you can access all customizable behavior from  this	configura-
       tion.

       poold periodically examines the load on the system and decides whether intervention is required to maintain optimal system performance with
       respect to resource consumption. poold also responds to externally initiated (with respect to poold) changes of either resource	configura-
       tion or objectives.

       If  intervention  is required, poold attempts to reallocate the available resources to ensure that performance objectives are satisfied. If
       it is not possible for poold to meet performance objectives with the available resources, then a message is written to the log. poold allo-
       cates  scarce resources according to the objectives configured by the administrator. The system administrator must determine which resource
       pools are most deserving of scarce resource and indicate this through the importance of resource pools and objectives.

OPTIONS
       The following options are supported:

       -l level    Specify the vebosity level for logging information.

		   Specify level as ALERT, CRIT, ERR, WARNING, NOTICE, INFO, and DEBUG. If level is not supplied, then the default  logging  level
		   is INFO.

		   ALERT       A condition that should be corrected immediately, such as a corrupted system database.

		   CRIT       Critical conditions, such as hard device errors.

		   ERR	      Errors.

		   WARNING    Warning messages.

		   NOTICE      Conditions that are not error conditions, but that may require special handling.

		   INFO       Informational messages.

		   DEBUG      Messages that contain information normally of use only when debugging a program.

       When invoked manually, with the -l option, all log output is directed to standard error.

EXAMPLES
       Example 1 Modifying the Default Logging Level

       The following command modifies the default logging level to ERR:

	 # /usr/lib/pool/poold -l ERR

       Example 2 Enabling Dynamic Resource Pools

       The following command enables dynamic resource pools:

	 # /usr/sbin/svcadm enable svc:/system/pools/dynamic

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWpool			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |See below.		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

       The invocation is Evolving. The output is Unstable.

SEE ALSO
       pooladm(1M), poolbind(1M), poolcfg(1M), poolstat(1M), svcadm(1M), pool_set_status(3POOL), libpool(3LIB), attributes(5), smf(5)

SunOS 5.11							    1 Dec 2005								 poold(1M)