Hi Daniel, I am not sure if I understand your questions correctly. But will the resource aware scheduler help? https://github.com/apache/storm/blob/master/docs/Resource_Aware_Scheduler_overview.md <https://github.com/apache/storm/blob/master/docs/Resource_Aware_Scheduler_overview.md>
Thanks Ethan > On Apr 12, 2018, at 1:45 PM, Hannum, Daniel <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I think I know the answer, but I can’t find docs, so check my thinking please. > > We’re going to be going from 1 topology to maybe 5 on our (v1.1.x) cluster. I > think the way I share the cluster is by setting NumWorkers() on all the > topologies so we divide the available JVM’s up. If that is true, then don’t > we have the problem that I’m tying up resources if one is idle? Or that I > can’t move a JVM from topology A to topology B if B is under load? > > So my questions are: > Do I understand this correctly? > Is there any way to improve this situation besides just getting more hosts > and being ok with some portion of them being idle? > Is this going to get better in Storm 2? > > Thanks!
