-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all,
I'd like to get people's thoughts about reversing how computers are assigned for reservations relative to the specified amount of RAM for an image. Currently, the scheduler builds a list of computers that can fulfill a given reservation and orders them by specs of the machine by this priority: first by procspeed * proc number next by amount of RAM, finally by network speed Each of those is ordered in a descending order (i.e. best specs at the top). Then, the highest rated machine is given to the user. That algorithm came from our initial design back in 2004 when our nodes didn't have lots of RAM, didn't have a high variability of contained RAM, didn't have more RAM that some of the OSes could handle, and we weren't doing any virtualization. The idea was that the user would get the best available machine for the reservation. Now, with nodes having very high amounts of RAM, a high variability of contained RAM, and having WinXP images that can't even use more than 4 GB of RAM, I'm wondering if ordering for RAM (and maybe all specs) should be reversed. This would make it so that priority is given to assign a node that just meets the specs for the image rather than assigning the best one available. We're running in to cases where we have some bare metal nodes with 24 GB or more of RAM, but still have WinXP images available to users. We have to map things so that the WinXP images cannot get deployed to the higher RAM nodes to keep from wasting the RAM when other users would like to have it. Things would be simplified if we could just have a more general pool and have the scheduler take care of keeping resources from being wasted. What do others think? I could also make it an option in conf.php as to which method is used. However, unless people feel it useful to keep the current method, it would be simpler to just reverse the ordering. Also, if you think it is a good idea to reverse it, should all specs be reversed, or just RAM? Thanks, Josh - -- - ------------------------------- Josh Thompson VCL Developer North Carolina State University my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlEiSTwACgkQV/LQcNdtPQN3qQCeLaxbUg9Rh6F4mpQrcn1mh5jz VSEAn2C35CQCIqLnRUJFansQ5zKIhlNa =KVAL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
