Projects and Tasks
Solaris 9 has introduced a number of resource-management improvements. One of the most important is the concept of projects and tasks. These are used to identify what is called a workload. For projects, this means some related work, such as payroll development. For tasks, it means a group of processes that represent a component of a workload, such as calculation of pay.
The concept behind projects is to be able to identify the separate work-loads that are running on the system and then to administer and report on them individually. Projects are useful when using a chargeback method to “bill” each project for resource usage. This allows the extended accounting software to identify how much resource a particular project has ...
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