How to Temporarily Set FSS Shares in the Global Zone

The global zone is given one share by default. Perform this procedure to temporarily change the default allocation.

Become a zone administrator.

For more information, see Using Rights Profiles to Install and Manage Zones.
Assign shares to the global zone.
```
global$ prctl -n zone.cpu-shares -v N -r -i zone global
```
‐v value

Specifies the new value, in this case, the new number of CPU shares.

-i zone idtype

Specifies the zone name or the zone ID.

Verify the number of shares assigned to the global zone.

global$ prctl -n zone.cpu-shares -i zone global
zone: 0: global
NAME    PRIVILEGE       VALUE    FLAG   ACTION                       RECIPIENT
zone.cpu-shares
        usage               1
        privileged          1       -   none                                 -
        system          65.5K     max   none                                 -

Example 5-10 Dynamically Changing the zone.cpu-shares Value in a Zone

$ prctl -n zone.cpu-shares -r -v 2 -i zone ZoneA