Solaris Resource Manager 1.3 Release Notes

Required Patches

Patches can be obtained at http://sunsolve.sun.com or through your normal support channels.

If you plan to perform Dynamic Reconfiguration operations on a Sun Enterprise^TM 3000, Sun Enterprise 3500, Sun Enterprise 4000, Sun Enterprise 4500, Sun Enterprise 5000, Sun Enterprise 5500, Sun Enterprise 6000, or Sun Enterprise 6500 system platform, you must be running at least the 3.2.22 revision of the CPU PROM. If your system is running with a lower version of the CPU PROM, download patch 103346-22 or greater and install it as described in the patch's README file. This patch should be installed on your system before you install Solaris Resource Manager 1.3.

If you're running Solaris Resource Manager on Solaris 8, you must have patch 108995-04 (or greater) installed on your system. If you don't have this patch installed, the installation script will automatically install it on your system before installing the resource capping daemon packages.

If you are running Solaris Resource Manager on Solaris 7, you should install patch 109256-01. This patch fixes bug 4320903 by preventing the srmadm utility from accepting negative values, which are invalid, for the delta and maxusage tunable parameters. If these parameters are set to invalid values, a Solaris 7 system installed with Solaris Resource Manager can become unusable.

Prior to installing Solaris Resource Manager on your Solaris 2.6 SPARC Platform Edition 5/98 system, install these patches:

KU patch 105181-11 (or greater), which contains the kernel enhancements necessary to enable Solaris Resource Manager in the Solaris 2.6 environment.
Patch 107945-01, which fixes bug 4320903 by preventing the srmadm utility from accepting negative values, which are invalid, for the delta and maxusage tunable parameters. If these parameters are set to invalid values, a Solaris 2.6 system installed with Solaris Resource Manager can become unusable.
Patch 108192-02, which fixes bug 4191878 that affects the srmuser utility when it is being called from ksh. When srmuser is used to start processes and put them in the background, the cpu.usage and cpu.accrue lnode attributes don't get updated, and as a result these processes can be improperly scheduled.
Patch 106123-04 (or greater), which is needed to display the Solaris Resource Manager man pages contained in the SUNWsrmm package on Solaris 2.6 systems.

Note that the Solaris 7 5/99 release incorporates KU patch 106541-04, which contains the kernel enhancements necessary to enable Solaris Resource Manager in the Solaris 7 environment. If the patch for the release you are running is revised in the future, you might want to install the updated version on your system.