When to Use Basic Solaris Features
The basic facilities of the Solaris operating environment are sufficient for simple resource management that can be partly implemented manually, where low system cost is more of an issue than automating and controlling the management process.
On a large multiprocessor system, you can use processor partitioning at the per-CPU level. This obviously doesn't work on uniprocessors and is too coarse in granularity with small numbers of CPUs.
Some of the software controls such as limits can be set globally, so if the same limit is appropriate for all the users, the basic limits set by Solaris software might be useful.
With a simple workload that is performance sensitive, the additional overhead of measuring and controlling ...
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