Hi Ulrich,

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 02:12:17PM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> >>> Lars Marowsky-Bree <[email protected]> schrieb am 16.10.2012 um 10:41 in 
> >>> Nachricht
> <[email protected]>:
> > On 2012-10-16T08:20:56, [email protected] wrote:
> > 
> > > may I ask the formula or values of max number of children with regard to 
> > > the number of processors ?
> > 
> > http://hg.linux-ha.org/glue/rev/1f36e9cdcc13 - number of CPUs divided by
> > two or four, whatever is lower.

Whatever is greater, actually.

> Interesting formula: I'd use something like "number of CPUs" * 4, not divided 
> by.
> 
> Reason: Today's workload is usually limited by I/O, not by CPU power.
> 
> However with something crazy like 32 CPUs, 32 tasks can easily be run, but 
> most likely will block or slow down each other (due to I/O, locking, etc.)

As you just pointed out, better not to dump to much load to the
hosts.

Thanks,

Dejan
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