A Scenario to Avoid

The following scenario should be avoided.

In this scenario, one user has processes in both processor sets. User 1 has 20 Solaris Resource Manager shares and has processes in each processor set. User 2 has 80 Solaris Resource Manager shares and is restricted to processor set B (1 CPU).

In this example, user 1's first process will consume its entire processor set (50 percent of the system). Since user 2 is allowed 80 shares, user 2's process will consume its entire processor set (50 percent). Thus, user 1's second process will get no share of the CPU.