Hi, my name is Andrei Dorofeev, and I am an engineer in the Solaris Kernel Group. I've been working at Sun for almost 6 years. I am currently working in the Resource Management team and spending a lot of my time dealing with various scheduling issues. Some of the things I've worked on in the past:

• prstat - utility to report active process statistics (ala top)
• Solaris Resource Manager 1.x - an extension to the Solaris Operating System (unbundled product for 2.6, 7, and 8), which is comprised of the Fair Share Scheduler, and additional resource controls.
• Solaris 9 Resource Manager - the same functionality as above (and more) is now part of the base OS. S9RM consists of the following components:
  • Projects, Tasks, and Extended Accounting - project provides a network-wide administrative identifier for a workload, and task collects a group of processes into a workload component.
  • Resource Controls - major extention to the UNIX per-process resource limit concept
  • Fair Share Scheduler - additional scheduling class that provides the ability to control the allocation of available CPU resources among workloads, based on their importance (in terms of shares).
  • Resource Pools - flexible configuration mechanism for creating groups of resource partitions and associating them with applications or services.
• Support for Intel's Hyper-Threading technology in Solaris 9.