Reserved memory and disk for mesos

2016-03-15 Thread Arkal Arjun Rao
Hi All, I read this line in the book "Building Applications on Mesos - David Greenberg": " The slave will reserve 1 GB or 50% of detected memory, whichever is smaller, in order to run itself and other operating system services. Likewise, it will reserve 5 GB or 50% of detected disk, whichever is

Re: Reserved memory and disk for mesos

2016-03-15 Thread Zameer Manji
Arkal, There are many services that might need to run on a host adjacent to the slave. For example, you might need a dns resolver, ntp, postfix, sshd, etc. All of these services may need disk space for logging or other uses. On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Arkal Arjun Rao wrote: > Hi All, > >

Re: Reserved memory and disk for mesos

2016-03-15 Thread Vinod Kone
Also, note that this is the default behavior which can be overridden by the --resources flag. On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Zameer Manji wrote: > Arkal, > > There are many services that might need to run on a host adjacent to the > slave. For example, you might need a dns resolver, ntp, post

Re: Reserved memory and disk for mesos

2016-03-15 Thread Arkal Arjun Rao
Hi Vinod and Zameer, Thanks for your replies. Vinod, I understand it can be overridden with the flag. I guess I want to know what the consequences of doing so would be. Zameer, do you feel 5Gb is required or could I go lower? Arjun On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Vinod Kone wrote: > Also, n