Solaris 9 Container - Large Page Sizes

hello,
I have recently installed a Solaris9 branded container on a T5440 box, and have an issue with MPSS in the container, please see below
I run pagesize a in the global zone and get this:
8192
65536
4194304
268435456
I run pagesize a in a Solaris 9 branded container and only get:
8192
I have a similar setup on our new 5240 dev box but the container and global zone both have the same output.
Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I do not recall how MPSS works in detail, but i think it was enhanced in Solaris 10, where it works out of the box.
I think you have to do something in the Solaris 9 zone to get it to work.
Perhaps this document can provide some details;
http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0304/817-5917.pdf
.7/M.

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SunOS machinename.lucent.com 5.9 Generic_112233-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000
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Address Kbytes RSS Anon Locked Pgsz Mode Mapped File
00010000 8 8 - - 8K r-x-- malloc_and_sleep
00020000 8 8 8 - 8K rwx-- malloc_and_sleep
00022000 3960 3960 3960 - 8K rwx-- [ heap ]
00400000 6288 6288 6288 - 8K rwx-- [ heap ]
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I'm running this as root.
In addition to the ppgsz approach, I have also tried using memcntl and mmap'ing ANON memory (and others). Memcntl gives an error for 2MB page sizes, but reports success with a 4MB page size - but still, pmap reports the memcntl'd memory as using an 8K page size.
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Host Name is machinename.lucent.com
Host Aliases is loghost
Host Address(es) is xxxxxxxx
Host ID is xxxxxxxxx
/opt/default/bin/sysinfo: /dev/ksyms is not a 32-bit kernel namelist
Manufacturer is Sun (Sun Microsystems)
/opt/default/bin/sysinfo: /dev/ksyms is not a 32-bit kernel namelist
/opt/default/bin/sysinfo: /dev/ksyms is not a 32-bit kernel namelist
System Model is Blade 1000
/opt/default/bin/sysinfo: /dev/ksyms is not a 32-bit kernel namelist
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Number of CPUs is 2
CPU Type is sparc
App Architecture is sparc
Kernel Architecture is sun4u
OS Name is SunOS
OS Version is 5.9
Kernel Version is SunOS Release 5.9 Version Generic_112233-11 [UNIX(R) System V Release 4.0]
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Max processes allowed to any UID is 29995
Clock ticks per second is 100
Max simultaneous groups per user is 16
Max open files per process is 256
System memory page size is 8192
Job control supported is TRUE
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Version of POSIX.1 standard supported is 199506
Version of the X/Open standard supported is 3
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Max password length is 8
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Number of processors (CPUs) online is 2
Total number of pages of physical memory is 262144
Number of pages of physical memory not currently in use is 4368
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Max number of timer expiration overruns is 2147483647
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Max number of message priorities supported is 32
Max number of realtime signals is 8
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Max number of timers per process is 32
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Supports memory mapped files is TRUE
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Supports range memory locking is TRUE
Supports memory protection is TRUE
Supports message passing is TRUE
Supports process scheduling is TRUE
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Supports semaphores is TRUE
Supports shared memory objects is TRUE
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SUNW,Sun-Blade-1000
cpu0 is a "900 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+" CPU
cpu1 is a "900 MHz SUNW,UltraSPARC-III+" CPU
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Thanks in advance.
Mike

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Address Kbytes RSS Anon Locked Pgsz Mode Mapped File
00010000 8 8 - - 8K r-x-- mm
00020000 8 8 8 - 8K rwx-- mm
00022000 3960 3960 3960 - 8K rwx-- [ heap ]
00400000 8192 8192 8192 - 4M rwx-- [ heap ]
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i386 114433-03
sparc 113471-04
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