Balbir Singh wrote: > Dave Hansen wrote: >> On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 11:33 +0400, Pavel Emelianov wrote: >>> I'm afraid we have different understandings of what a "guarantee" is. >> >> It appears so. >> >>> Don't we? >>> Guarantee may be one of >>> >>> 1. container will be able to touch that number of pages >>> 2. container will be able to sys_mmap() that number of pages >>> 3. container will not be killed unless it touches that number of >>> pages >> >> A "death sentence" guarantee? I like it. :) >> >>> 4. anything else >>> >>> Let's decide what kind of a guarantee we want. > > I think of guarantees w.r.t resources as the lower limit on the resource. > Guarantees and limits can be thought of as the range (guarantee, limit] > for the usage of the resource. > >> >> I think of it as: "I will be allowed to use this many total pages, and >> they are guaranteed not to fail." (1), I think. The sum of all of the >> system's guarantees must be less than or equal to the amount of free >> memory on the machine. > > Yes, totally agree.
Such a guarantee is really a limit and this limit is even harder than BC's one :) E.g. I have a node with 1Gb of ram and 10 containers with 100Mb guarantee each. I want to start one more. What shall I do not to break guarantees? > >> If we knew to which NUMA node the memory was going to go, we might as >> well take the pages out of the allocator. >> >> -- Dave >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ ckrm-tech mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ckrm-tech
