System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

Solaris Resource Management

Solaris resource management enables you to control how applications use available system resources.

You can also set up the extended accounting facility to monitor and record resource consumption on a task or process basis.

Extended accounting introduces a new, variable length general-purpose accounting file format that represents general groups of accounting data. It provides the ability to configure resource utilization recorded by the kernel in the various accounting files.

Solaris resource management features include:

The new default accounting configuration requires no administration. However, do not remove the /etc/project file, even if you do not use the extended accounting features. Users cannot log in to the system unless this file exists.

Use the following table to find more information about the extended accounting features in this release.

Solaris Resource Management Feature 

For More Information 

Turning on and off extended accounting 

“Extended Accounting” in System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services andacctadm(1M)

Description of the projects database

“Projects and Tasks” in System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services andproject(4)

Directly collecting extended accounting data 

libexacct(3LIB), getacct(2),putacct(2), and wracct(2)