Restricting Resources

Solaris Resource Manager maintains a database of resource usage and associated limits.

The SHR scheduler takes into account the administrative specification for resource guarantees. It is capable of managing resources that are renewable (such as CPU time) or fixed (such as number of processes).

Other Solaris Resource Manager modules implement restrictions on the consumption of various resources. For example, connect-time and user logins are managed by a Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM). The PAM module consults the Solaris Resource Manager database each time a user attempts to log in. Once the system authenticates the user (generally through password matching), the user's connect-time and number of current logins are checked against the limits. The login is rejected if either limit is exceeded.