Github user jerrypeng commented on a diff in the pull request:
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+# Introduction
+
+The purpose of this document is to provide a description of the Resource
Aware Scheduler for the Storm distributed real-time computation system. This
document will provide you with both a high level description of the resource
aware scheduler in Storm
+
+## Using Resource Aware Scheduler
+
+The user can switch to using the Resource Aware Scheduler by setting the
following in *conf/storm.yaml*
+
+ storm.scheduler:
âbacktype.storm.scheduler.resource.ResourceAwareSchedulerâ
+
+
+## API Overview
+
+For a Storm Topology, the user can now specify the amount of resources a
topology component (i.e. Spout or Bolt) is required to run a single instance of
the component. The user can specify the resource requirement for a topology
component by using the following API calls.
+
+### Setting Memory Requirement
+
+API to set component memory requirement:
+
+ public T setMemoryLoad(Number onHeap, Number offHeap)
+
+Parameters:
+* Number onHeap â The amount of on heap memory an instance of this
component will consume in megabytes
+* Number OffHeap â The amount of off heap memory an instance of this
component will consume in megabytes
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