Writing Resource Management Applications

This manual focuses on resource management from the developer's point of view and presents information for writing the following kinds of applications:

• Resource administration applications – Utilities to perform such tasks as allocating resources, creating partitions, and scheduling jobs.

• Resource monitoring applications – Applications that check system statistics through kstats to determine resource usage by systems, workloads, processes, and users.

• Resource accounting utilities – Applications that provide accounting information for analysis, billing, and capacity planning.

• Self-adjusting applications – Applications that can determine their use of resources and can adjust consumption as necessary.