On 17/06/2015 13:01, Alex Rukletsov wrote:
IMO it is planned to measure the actual resource consumption on each
Mesos agent node and notify Mesos master (including allocator) about
extra free but revokable resources. Here
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pUnElxHy1uWfHY_FOvvRC73QaOGgdXE0OXN-gbxdXA0/edit#heading=h.yvd9qbi4swb4>
is the design doc for this feature,
Thank you: that is very helpful, and I'll definitely keep an eye on
what's going on.
I also read the [DRF
paper](http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2010/EECS-2010-55.pdf)
and it's interesting to read in section 3.4 that DRF does not even need
to take into account the amount requested for each resource - it only
needs to know the actual utilisation.
Regards,
Brian.