On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 13:10 -0700, Paul Menage wrote: > On 9/21/06, Chandra Seetharaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The current fake numa support requires you to choose your node layout > > > at boot time - I've been working with 64 fake nodes of 128M each, > > > which gives a reasonable granularity for dividing a machine between > > > multiple different sized jobs. > > > > It still will not satisfy what OpenVZ/Container folks are looking for: > > 100s of containers. > > Right - so fake-numa is not the right solution for everyone, and I > never suggested that it is. (Having said that, there are discussions > underway to make the zone-based approach more practical - if you could > have dynamically-resizable nodes, this would be more applicable to > openvz).
It would still have the other issue you pointed, i.e the userspace being able to cope up with memory allocators dynamics. > > But, there's no reason that the OpenVZ resource control mechanisms > couldn't be hooked into a generic process container mechanism along > with cpusets and RG. Isn't that one of the things we are trying to avoid (each one having their own solution, especially when we _can_ have a common solution). > > Paul -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Chandra Seetharaman | Be careful what you choose.... - [EMAIL PROTECTED] | .......you may get it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ ckrm-tech mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ckrm-tech