Pavel Emelianov wrote: > Balbir Singh wrote: >> Pavel Emelianov wrote: >>> 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? >> Don't start the new container or change the guarantees of the existing >> ones >> to accommodate this one :) The QoS design (done by the administrator) >> should >> take care of such use-cases. It would be perfectly ok to have a container >> that does not care about guarantees to set their guarantee to 0 and set >> their limit to the desired value. As Chandra has been stating we need two >> parameters (guarantee, limit), either can be optional, but not both. > If I set up 9 groups to have 100Mb limit then I have 100Mb assured (on > 1Gb node) > for the 10th one exactly. And I do not have to set up any guarantee as > it won't affect > anything. So what a guarantee parameter is needed for?
This use case works well for providing guarantee to one container. What if I want guarantees of 100Mb and 200Mb for two containers? How do I setup the system using limits? Even I restrict everyone else to 700Mb. With this I cannot be sure that the remaining 300Mb will be distributed as 100Mb and 200Mb. -- Balbir Singh, Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Labs ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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