Petr Bena <[email protected]> wrote: > in order to save system resources on bots project I decided to create one > huge application instance instead of ton of small instances.
> If we consider the usage of operating system for disk storage, and RAM, you > easily find out that 10 small instances eat about 1800MB RAM and 20GB of > hdd storage more than it would be needed in case we had only one OS working > with multiple processes. > I know that this bring out some extra problems, so I would rather consider > it experiment for now. But given that we install some process killers > handling out broken bots that eat too much ram and such, it should work > (though it would be more like toolserver used to be). Of course, some extra > bots can still live on their own dedicated servers. > So in case you want to help me test this new experiment and you have some > bots running on bots-2 - bots-4 you can move them to bots-bnr1 (big non > root = bnr) On Toolserver, bots can use SGE to distribute the load more evenly over the cluster (cf. https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Job_scheduling). I had asked at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Labs/Toolserver_features_wanted_in_Tool_Labs if there is a "standard" way of job scheduling in Ubuntu shops - so is there? :-) Tim _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
