For AWS-based Aurora installations having 'tight bin packing' is critical for shutting down unused machines. I believe Fenzo helps with that, right?
On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 9:31 AM, Bill Farner <wfar...@apache.org> wrote: > It would also be helpful to capture the goals we hope to achieve with the > integration. We should also assess the risk of bringing it in, > specifically that we won't be left maintaining it (currently it's 100% > owned by netflix, mostly 1 developer AFAICT). > > On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 4:01 AM, Erb, Stephan <stephan....@blue-yonder.com > > > wrote: > > > Someone also expressed interest in Fenzo by adding it to the > > community-driven roadmap [1]. > > > > AFAIK nobody has looked at in in detail, yet. Or at least nobody has > > posted about it on the mailinglist. Feel free to be that someone and > take a > > closer look at what would be necessary to leverage the power of Fenzo in > > Aurora :-) > > > > Without checking, I would assume that the following areas might need the > > most effort to address: > > * the preemption mechanism of Aurora to make room for priority/production > > jobs > > * the work-in-progress feature using oversubscribed resources [2] > > > > Regards, > > Stephan > > > > [1] > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vyhTZSlEPeibQm2_7HK6JXOkydO0ZllZNQZ2O3cC4_0/edit?usp=sharing > > [2] > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r1WCHgmPJp5wbrqSZLsgtxPNj3sULfHrSFmxp2GyPTo/edit?pref=2&pli=1#heading=h.af56b6bntcao > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: Mauricio Garavaglia <mauriciogaravag...@gmail.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 6:02 AM > > To: dev@aurora.apache.org > > Subject: AURORA-1440 Evaluate Fenzo scheduling library > > > > Hello, > > > > I found the issue AURORA-1440 > > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AURORA-1440> about evaluating > fenzo > > to replace the scheduling algorithm. Has there been any progress on it? > is > > the intention just replace the implementation or also expose part of the > > configurations that fenzo allows? > > > > It would be handy to be able to select, for example, between cpu bin > > packing and memory bin packing. But also take advantage of the rich > > scheduling constraints api that it has. I assume a lot of discussion > would > > be needed regarding how to expose them though :) > > Thanks > > > > > > Mauricio > > >
