Hi Vinod and Zameer, Thanks for your replies.
Vinod, I understand it can be overridden with the flag. I guess I want to know what the consequences of doing so would be. Zameer, do you feel 5Gb is required or could I go lower? Arjun On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Vinod Kone <[email protected]> wrote: > Also, note that this is the default behavior which can be overridden by > the --resources flag. > > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Zameer Manji <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Arkal, >> >> There are many services that might need to run on a host adjacent to the >> slave. For example, you might need a dns resolver, ntp, postfix, sshd, etc. >> All of these services may need disk space for logging or other uses. >> >> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Arkal Arjun Rao <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I read this line in the book "Building Applications on Mesos - David >>> Greenberg": >>> >>> " The slave will reserve 1 GB or 50% of detected memory, whichever >>> is smaller, in order to run itself and other operating system services. >>> Likewise, it will reserve 5 GB or 50% of detected disk, whichever is >>> smaller. " >>> >>> I haven't been able to figure out what "operating system services" >>> refers to, and whether is is really necessary to block off the entire 5Gb >>> of disk for that purpose. Could anyone shed some light on what the disk is >>> used for, in better detail? >>> >>> Ideally, I'd like as much of the disk as possible for my framework. >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> Arjun >>> -- >>> Arjun Arkal Rao >>> >>> PhD Student, >>> Haussler Lab, >>> UC Santa Cruz, >>> USA >>> >>> [email protected] >>> >>> -- >>> Zameer Manji >>> >>> <[email protected]> >>> >> > -- Arjun Arkal Rao PhD Student, Haussler Lab, UC Santa Cruz, USA [email protected]
