How to Change the zone.cpu-shares Value in a Zone Dynamically

This procedure can be used in the global zone or in a non-global zone.

1. Become an administrator.

   For more information, see Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .

2. Use the prctl command to specify a new value for cpu-shares.

   # prctl  -n zone.cpu-shares -r -v value -i zone zonename

   idtype is either the zonename or the zoneid. value is the new value.