In the Oracle Solaris 11 operating system, power management configuration has moved into an SMF configuration repository. The new poweradm command is used to manage system power management properties directly rather than using a combination of power-related command, daemon, and configuration file. These changes are part of a wider set of changes to modernize the power management framework in the Oracle Solaris 11 operating system.
The following power management features are no longer available:
/etc/power.conf
pmconfig and powerd
Device power management
The following properties describe power management components:
administrative-authority – Defines the source of administrative control for Oracle Solaris power management. This property can be set to none, platform (default value), or smf.
When set to platform, the values of time-to-full-capacity and time-to-minimum-responsiveness are taken from the platform's power management commands.
When set to smf, the values of time-to-full-capacity and time-to-minimum-responsiveness are taken from SMF.
If you attempt to set time-to-full-capacity or time-to-minimum-responsiveness from either a platform command or an SMF service property when in the opposite venue, the value is ignored.
When administrative-authority is set to none, power management within the Oracle Solaris instance is turned off.
time-to-full-capacity – Defines the maximum time (in microseconds) the system is allowed to reach its full capacity, from any lower-capacity or less-responsive state, while the system is in active state. The maximum time includes the time while it has been using any or all of the PM features falling within this boundary.
By default, this value is taken from the platform, i86pc for example, because the default setting for administrative-authority is set to platform.
Alternatively, if administrative-authority is set to smf, this value is taken from the definition provided by the SMF power service. At installation time, this value is undefined. If you choose to modify this property, a value appropriate to the needs of the system's workload or applications should be considered.
time-to-minimum-responsiveness – Defines how long the system is allowed to return to its active state in milliseconds. This parameter provides the minimum capacity required to meet the time-to-full-capacity constraint. Because the default setting for administrative-authority is set to platform by default, this parameter value is taken from the platform, i86pc for example..
Alternatively, if administrative-authority is set to smf, this value is taken from the definition provided by the SMF power service . At installation time, this value is undefined. If you choose to modify this property, use a value appropriate to the needs of the system's workload or applications.
Moderate values, seconds for example, allow hardware components or subsystems on the platform to be placed in slower-response inactive states. Larger values, 30 seconds to minutes, for example, allow for whole system suspension, using techniques such as suspend-to-RAM.
suspend-enable – By default, no system running Oracle Solaris is permitted to attempt a suspend operation. Setting this property to true permits a suspend operation to be attempted. The value of the administrative-authority has no effect upon this property.
platform-disabled – When platform-disabled is set to true, the platform has disabled power management. When set to false, the default value, power management is controlled by the value of the above properties.
To display a brief summary of power management status, issue the following command:
$ /usr/sbin/poweradm show Power management is enabled with the hardware platform as the authority: time-to-full-capacity set to 250 microseconds time-to-minimum-responsiveness set to 0 milliseconds
To display power management properties, issue the following command:
$ /usr/sbin/poweradm list active_config/time-to-full-capacity current=250, platform=250 active_config/time-to-minimum-responsiveness current=0, platform=0 active_control/administrative-authority current=platform, smf=platform suspend/suspend-enable current=false platform-disabled current=false
In this output, the active_control/administrative-authority indicates the source of the configuration with two settings:
platform – Configuration for power management comes from the platform. This is the default value.
smf – Allows the other power management properties to be set using the poweradm command.
The platform-disabled property in the output indicates that the platform power management is enabled:
platform-disabled current=false
For more information, see the poweradm (1M) man page.
Example 5-1 Enabling and Disabling Power ManagementIf you previously enabled S3-support in the /etc/power.conf file to suspend and resume your system, similar poweradm syntax is:
# poweradm set suspend-enable=true
The suspend-enable property is set to false by default.
Use the following syntax to disable power management:
# poweradm set administrative-authority=none
Disabling the following SMF power management service does not disable power management:
online Sep_02 svc:/system/power:default
Use the following syntax to disable suspend and resume:
# poweradm set suspend-enable=falseExample 5-2 Setting and Displaying Power Management Parameters
The following example shows how to set time-to-full-capacity to 300 microseconds and time-to-minimum-responsiveness to 500 milliseconds. Lastly, the Oracle Solaris instance is informed of the new values.
# poweradm set time-to-full-capacity=300 # poweradm set time-to-minimum-responsiveness=500 # poweradm set administrative-authority=smf
The following command shows the current time-to-full-capacity value.
# poweradm get time-to-full-capacity 300
The following command retrieves the time-to-full-capacity value set by the platform.
# poweradm get -a platform time-to-full-capacity
Note that this value will be the same as the current value only if administrative-authority is set to platform. For more information, see the above administrative-authority property description.