Re: DUCC doesn't use all available machines

2014-11-30 Thread Eddie Epstein
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Simon Hafner 
wrote:

> 2014-11-30 7:25 GMT-06:00 Eddie Epstein :
> > On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Simon Hafner 
> wrote:
> >
> >> I've thrown some numbers at it (doubling each) and it's running at
> >> comfortable 125 procs. However, at about 6.1k of 6.5k items, the procs
> >> drop down to 30.
> >>
> >
> > 125 processes at 8 threads each = 1000 active pipelines. How CPU cores
> > are these 1000 pipelines running on?
> Only 60.
>

For CPU bound pipelines, throughput will tend to degrade with more threads
than cores.


Re: DUCC doesn't use all available machines

2014-11-30 Thread Simon Hafner
2014-11-30 7:25 GMT-06:00 Eddie Epstein :
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Simon Hafner  wrote:
>
>> I've thrown some numbers at it (doubling each) and it's running at
>> comfortable 125 procs. However, at about 6.1k of 6.5k items, the procs
>> drop down to 30.
>>
>
> 125 processes at 8 threads each = 1000 active pipelines. How CPU cores
> are these 1000 pipelines running on?
Only 60.


Re: DUCC doesn't use all available machines

2014-11-30 Thread Eddie Epstein
On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Simon Hafner  wrote:

> I've thrown some numbers at it (doubling each) and it's running at
> comfortable 125 procs. However, at about 6.1k of 6.5k items, the procs
> drop down to 30.
>

125 processes at 8 threads each = 1000 active pipelines. How CPU cores
are these 1000 pipelines running on?