Administering Resource Management in Oracle® Solaris 11.2

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Updated: July 2014
 
 

Units Support

Global flags that identify resource control types are defined for all resource controls. The flags are used by the system to communicate basic type information to applications such as the prctl command. Applications use the information to determine the following:

  • The unit strings that are appropriate for each resource control

  • The correct scale to use when interpreting scaled values

The following global flags are available:

Global Flag
Resource Control Type String
Modifier
Scale
RCTL_GLOBAL_BYTES
bytes
B
1
KB
210
MB
220
GB
230
TB
240
PB
250
EB
260
RCTL_GLOBAL_SECONDS
seconds
s
1
Ks
103
Ms
106
Gs
109
Ts
1012
Ps
1015
Es
1018
RCTL_GLOBAL_COUNT
count
none
1
K
103
M
106
G
109
T
1012
P
1015
E
1018

Scaled values can be used with resource controls. The following example shows a scaled threshold value:

task.max-lwps=(priv,1K,deny)

Note - Unit modifiers are accepted by the prctl, projadd, and projmod commands. You cannot use unit modifiers in the project database itself.