opensolaris man page for rcapd

rcapd(1M)						  System Administration Commands						 rcapd(1M)

NAME
       rcapd - resource cap enforcement daemon

SYNOPSIS
       rcapd [-d]

DESCRIPTION
       The  rcapd  daemon  enforces  resource  caps  on collections of processes. Per-project and per-zone physical memory caps are supported. For
       information about projects, see project(4). For zones information, see zones(5)

       When the resident set size (RSS) of a collection of processes exceeds its cap, rcapd takes action and reduces the RSS of the collection.

       The virtual memory system divides physical memory into segments known as pages. To read data from a file into memory,  the  virtual  memory
       system  reads in individual pages. To reduce resource consumption, the daemon can page out, or relocate, infrequently used pages to an area
       outside of physical memory.

       In the project file, caps are defined for projects that have positive values for the following project attribute:

       rcap.max-rss    The total amount of physical memory, in bytes, that is available to the project's member processes

       See project(4) for a description of project attributes.

       For a system with one or more zones, you can dynamically set the rcap.max-rss value for a zone with rcapadm(1M). To set a persistent cap on
       memory usage within a zone, you use zonecfg(1M).

       You  configure  rcapd  through the use of rcapadm(1M). The daemon can be monitored with rcapstat(1). Configuration changes are incorporated
       into rcapd by sending it SIGHUP (see kill(1)), or according to the configuration interval (see rcapadm(1M)).

OPTIONS
       The following option is supported:

       -d    Enable debug mode. Messages are displayed on the invoking user's terminal.

EXAMPLES
       Example 1 Setting Resident Set Size Cap Attribute

       The following line in the /etc/project database sets an RSS cap of 1073741824 bytes for a project named foo.

	 foo:100::foo,root::rcap.max-rss=10737418240

EXIT STATUS
       The following exit values are returned:

       0    Successful completion.

       1    An error occurred.

       2    Invalid command-line options were specified.

FILES
       /etc/project    Project database.

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

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWrcapu 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO
       rcapstat(1), svcs(1), rcapadm(1M), zonecfg(1M), svcadm(1M), project(4), attributes(5), smf(5), zones(5)

       "Physical Memory Control Using the Resource Capping Daemon" in System Administration Guide:  Solaris  Containers-Resource  Management,  and
       Solaris Zones

NOTES
       If killed with SIGKILL, rcapd can leave processes in a stopped state. Use SIGTERM to cause rcapd to terminate properly.

       A  collection's	RSS  can  exceed  its  cap for some time before the cap is enforced, even if sufficient pageable memory is available. This
       period of time can be reduced by shortening the RSS sampling interval with rcapadm.

       The rcapd service is managed by the service management facility, smf(5), under the service identifier:

	 svc:/system/rcap:default

       Administrative actions on this service, such as enabling, disabling, or requesting restart, can be performed  using  svcadm(1M).  The  ser-
       vice's status can be queried using the svcs(1) command.

SunOS 5.11							    19 Dec 2006 							 rcapd(1M)