Introduction to the Oracle Solaris Developer Documentation

Writing System Resource Management Applications

The Solaris Containers: Resource Management and Solaris Zones Developer’s Guide describes how to write applications that partition and manage system resources such as processor sets and thread scheduling classes. This book references the programming APIs provided to partition, schedule, and set bounds on the consumption of system resources. This book provides programming examples and a discussion of programming issues to consider when writing an application. This book also includes a brief overview of Oracle Solaris Zones technology and discusses design considerations for applications that run in zones.