Introduction to Resource Management

Oracle Solaris resource management functionality enables you to control how applications use available system resources. You can do the following:

• Allocate computing resources, such as processor time

• Monitor how the allocations are being used, then adjust the allocations as necessary

• Generate extended accounting information for analysis, billing, and capacity planning

This chapter covers the following topics.

• Resource Management Overview

• When to Use Resource Management

• Setting Up Resource Management (Task Map)