Disabling Solaris Resource Manager

The srmadm(1MSRM) command can disable Solaris Resource Manager by clearing the fileopen flag: all processes are moved onto the surrogate root lnode, other changed lnodes in the cache are flushed to disk, and the limits database is closed. This automatically forces the share and limits flags off, disabling the SHR scheduler and limit enforcement, respectively. The share and limits flags may be turned off independently if required while leaving the limits database open. This is better than closing the file, because processes can stay attached to their correct lnodes.

Note that if the Solaris Resource Manager scheduler alone is disabled in mid-operation, all this does is suspend the usage and decay algorithm. The scheduler still continues handling processes in the SHR scheduling class, but as each is assigned an updated priority, the same value is used, resulting in simple "round-robin" scheduling.

Re-enabling Solaris Resource Manager by opening the file and setting the share and/or limits flags after the file has been closed will not cause existing processes to move off the root lnode. It is best not to close the Solaris Resource Manager database during normal operation. If it is closed, the system should be rebooted in order to ensure correct attachment of processes to lnodes.