Hello Rudraneel and thank you for your timely response! So, from what I understand, the answer to my question is yes. Also, in the documentation jargon, a "slot" translates to a worker process, right?
Thank you again! Cheers, Nick On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Rudraneel chakraborty < [email protected]> wrote: > You can assign executors of the same topology in a worker process. For an > example if a topology has 10 executors , you can assign all of them in a > single worker slot > > > On Wednesday, 9 March 2016, Nick R. Katsipoulakis <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> I was going through the backtype.storm.scheduler package and I came >> across class Cluster. What is the difference between the following two >> methods: >> >> Cluster.getAssignableSlots(SupervisorDetails supervisor) and >> >> Cluster.getAvailableSlots(SupervisorDetails supervisor) >> >> Also, if an executor thread is assigned to a WorkerSlot returned by >> getAvailableSlots(), can another executor thread be assigned to the same >> WorkerSlot returned by the getAssignableSlots()? >> >> Thanks, >> Nick >> > > > -- > Rudraneel Chakraborty > Carleton University Real Time and Distributed Systems Reserach > > -- Nick R. Katsipoulakis, Department of Computer Science University of Pittsburgh
