Global Workload Manager Terminology

The following terms are used throughout this chapter and the gWLM documentation.

Workload: a set of processes that can be identified by an executable, by the owning user name, or by the owning group name. Workloads are the level of granularity with which gWLM monitors the processes within the compartment and makes resource adjustments to ensure that the policy for the workload is being met. From a gWLM perspective, workloads reside within a single compartment. The supported compartment types are virtual partitions (vPars), processor sets (PSETs), and fair-share scheduler (FSS) groups.

Compartment: a vPar, an nPartition, a PSET, or a FSS group that is capable of being managed by gWLM. gWLM is capable of dynamically ...

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