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Resource Management
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Resource Management

by Richard Mc Dougall, Adrian Cockcroft, Evert Hoogendoorn, Enrique Vargas, Tom Bialaski
September 1999
Intermediate to advanced
332 pages
8h 19m
English
Pearson
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Processor Partitioning

When several workloads compete for CPU time on a large system, you can divide the CPUs into sets and bind each workload to a different set to constrain it. This section describes how this works and where it can be used effectively.

In the past, it was common to use several systems, one to run each workload. Modern computer systems are so powerful and scalable, that it becomes more efficient to consolidate workloads onto fewer, larger, systems. A new feature in the Solaris 2.6 operating environment allows a multiprocessor machine to be partitioned into processor sets, where each workload is constrained to use only the processors in one set. The Solaris 7 version adds some interrupt management capabilities.

Processor Sets ...

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