System Administration Guide: Virtualization Using the Solaris Operating System

ProcedureHow to Define Configuration Objectives

You can specify objectives for poold to consider when taking corrective action.

In the following procedure, the wt-load objective is being set so that poold tries to match resource allocation to resource utilization. The locality objective is disabled to assist in achieving this configuration goal.

  1. Become superuser, or assume a role that includes the Process Management profile.

    The System Administrator role includes the Process Management profile. For more information about roles, see Using the Solaris Management Tools With RBAC (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

  2. Modify system tester to favor the wt-load objective.


    # poolcfg -c 'modify system tester (string system.poold.objectives="wt-load")'
    
  3. Disable the locality objective for the default processor set.


    # poolcfg -c 'modify pset pset_default (string pset.poold.objectives="locality none")'one line
    
  4. Disable the locality objective for the pset_batch processor set.


    # poolcfg -c 'modify pset pset_batch (string pset.poold.objectives="locality none")'one line
    
  5. Display the edited configuration.


    # poolcfg -c info
    system tester
            string  system.comment
            int     system.version 1
            boolean system.bind-default true
            int     system.poold.pid 177916
            string  system.poold.objectives wt-load
    
            pool pool_default
                    int     pool.sys_id 0
                    boolean pool.active true
                    boolean pool.default true
                    int     pool.importance 1
                    string  pool.comment 
                    pset    pset_default
    
            pset pset_default
                    int     pset.sys_id -1
                    boolean pset.default true
                    uint    pset.min 1
                    uint    pset.max 65536
                    string  pset.units population
                    uint    pset.load 10
                    uint    pset.size 4
                    string  pset.comment 
                    boolean testnullchanged true
                    string  pset.poold.objectives locality none
    
                    cpu
                            int     cpu.sys_id 3
                            string  cpu.comment 
                            string  cpu.status on-line
    
                    cpu
                            int     cpu.sys_id 2
                            string  cpu.comment 
                            string  cpu.status on-line
    
                    cpu
                            int     cpu.sys_id 1
                            string  cpu.comment 
                            string  cpu.status on-line
    
                    cpu
                            int     cpu.sys_id 0
                            string  cpu.comment 
                            string  cpu.status on-line
    
            pool pool_batch
                    boolean pool.default false
                    boolean pool.active true
                    int pool.importance 1
                    string pool.comment
                    string pool.scheduler FSS
                    pset batch
    
            pset pset_batch
                    int pset.sys_id -2
                    string pset.units population
                    boolean pset.default true
                    uint pset.max 10
                    uint pset.min 2
                    string pset.comment
                    boolean pset.escapable false
                    uint pset.load 0
                    uint pset.size 0
                    string  pset.poold.objectives locality none
    
                    cpu
                            int     cpu.sys_id 5
                            string  cpu.comment
                            string  cpu.status on-line
    
                    cpu
                            int     cpu.sys_id 4
                            string  cpu.comment
                            string  cpu.status on-line
  6. Commit the configuration at /etc/pooladm.conf.


    # pooladm -c
    
  7. (Optional) To copy the dynamic configuration to a static configuration file called /tmp/backup, type the following:


    # pooladm -s /tmp/backup