Mesos doesn't know anything about non-Mesos processes running on the machine consuming resources. So yes, Mesos would still offer the resources and allow a task to be placed there. The assumption is that all of the resources specified via --resources are available for Mesos to allocate.
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:34 AM, craig w <[email protected]> wrote: > Mesos slaves report the total resources they have available, such as 2 > CPU, 8GB Memory and 100GB disk. > > Does Mesos keep track of the amount of resources that are actually > available to best schedule tasks? > > For example, imagine a slave has some other processes running on it (that > are not mesos tasks) that are taking up 6GB of RAM (out of the total 8GB). > A new task is created in Mesos that needs 4GB of RAM, would Mesos still try > to put the new task on the slave? >
