+1 to this feature! We have always wanted something like this but
never had bandwidth to pull it off.

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 3:14 PM, John Sirois <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Brian Hatfield <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We currently run a (relatively) small Mesos/Aurora cluster, and don't
>> always have significant resource overhead available.
>>
>> Sometimes, we go to schedule a job and we're just short of what we
>> estimated-by-hand we'd need in the cluster for it. Most of the tasks
>> schedule - but a few stay "PENDING" because of the resource constraint. This
>> often confuses users, or in some cases, causes the command to block for a
>> while until it eventually times out.
>>
>> We're currently working on automating somewhat-more-precise basic
>> estimation with information sourced from /offers to get a sense of "nope,
>> your task won't schedule" to provide fast feedback that doesn't manipulate
>> the state of the cluster.
>>
>> A friend recommended that I suggest to this mailing list something
>> integrated into Aurora to accomplish this instead - since our basic
>> estimation doesn't include co-scheduling constraints, quotas, etc.
>>
>> So: We believe that this feature doesn't exist in Aurora today, and wanted
>> to suggest it as a future feature for the project.
>
>
> I think this would be a great feature from simple yes/no to more
> sophisticated likelyhood estimates even based on time of day (cron job
> scheduling taken into account):
> 1. A ticket [1] describing the minimum viable feature.
> 2. Work towards implementation [2].
>
> Would you be willing to do any of these? I'd be willing to review designs
> and reviews.
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/CreateIssue!default.jspa
> [2] http://aurora.apache.org/documentation/latest/contributing/
>
>>
>> Thanks :-)
>> Brian
>
>

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