Creating and Using Oracle^® Solaris Zones

How to Set zone.cpu-shares in the Global Zone

Use this procedure to persistently set shares in the global zone.

1. Become a zone administrator.

   For more information, see Assigning Limited Rights to Zone Administrators.

2. Ensure that the resource-mgmt service is enabled.

   $ svcs svc:/system/resource-mgmt:default
   STATE          STIME    FMRI
   disabled       Jan_08   svc:/system/resource-mgmt:default

   If the service is not online, enable it and check again.

   $ svcadm enable resource-mgmt:default
   $ svcs svc:/system/resource-mgmt:default
   STATE          STIME    FMRI
   online         Jan_12   svc:/system/resource-mgmt:default

3. Use the zonecfg command.

   $ zonecfg -z global

4. Set 5 shares for the global zone.

   zonecfg:global> set cpu-shares=5

5. Exit zonecfg.

   zonecfg:global> exit