Oracle® Solaris Cluster Concepts Guide

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Updated: July 2014, E39575-01
 
 

Control of CPU

Each application and service that is running on a cluster has specific CPU needs. For example, the global-cluster node assigns CPU shares.

If you want to apply CPU shares, you must specify the Fair Share Scheduler (FFS) as the default scheduler in the cluster. A CPU share is the portion of the system's CPU resources that is allocated to a project. Shares define the relative importance of workloads in relation to other workloads. When you assign CPU shares to a project, your primary concern is not the number of shares the project has. Rather, you should know how many of those other projects will be competing with it for CPU resources.