The main concept behind resource management is that workloads on a server must be balanced for the system to work efficiently. Without good resource management, faulty runaway workloads can bring progress to a halt, causing unnecessary delays to priority jobs. An additional benefit is that efficient resource management enables organizations to economize by consolidating servers. To enable the management of resources, the Oracle Solaris operating system provides a structure for organizing workloads and resources, and provides controls for defining the quantity of resources that a particular unit of workload can consume. For an in-depth discussion of resource management from the system administrator's viewpoint, see Chapter 1, Introduction to Resource Management, in Administering Resource Management in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .