Choosing a scheduler

2009-09-09 Thread Brian Seaman
I am planning on upgrading to the new 0.20.1 version to be able to use the job schedulers. The two schedulers, Fair and Capacity, seem fairly similar. Is there a reason to pick one over the other? Does one receive better ongoing support than the other? Thanks for you help. -Brian

Re: Choosing a scheduler

2009-09-09 Thread brien colwell
We use the fair scheduler because it's easy to configure and easily understood -- all jobs get an equal share of the resources. The capacity scheduler has more complex semantics (capacities per queue, how are resources split between jobs of equal priority within the same queue?, etc -- see