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Version 3.1-enSolaris 10 Container Guide - 3.1 5. Cookbooks Effective: 30/11/2009

Settings for swap (= virtual memory), locked memory and other resource controls of a zone can be queried at runtime with prctl -i zone <zone>.

global # prctl -i zone zone1
zone: 22: zone1
NAME	PRIVILEGE	VALUE	FLAG	ACTION RECIPIENT
zone.max-swap
	privileged	200MB	-	deny	-
	system	16.0EB	max	deny	-
zone.max-locked-memory
	privileged	20.0MB	-	deny	-
	system	16.0EB	max	deny	-
zone.max-shm-memory
	system	16.0EB	max	deny	-
zone.max-shm-ids
	system	16.8M	max	deny	-
	. . .
zone.max-lwps
	system	2.15G	max	deny	-
zone.cpu-shares
	privileged	1	-	none	-
	system	65.5K	max	none	-

Changing these settings at runtime can be done using the command prctl.

global # prctl -r -t privileged -n zone.max-swap -v 180m -e deny -i

zone zone1
global # prctl -n zone.max-swap -i zone				zone1
zone: 22: zone1
NAME	PRIVILEGE	VALUE	FLAG	ACTION	RECIPIENT
zone.max-swap
	privileged	180MB	-	deny	-
	system	16.0EB	max	deny	-

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