GNU bug report logs - #43773
guix offload scheduler/load balancer throttles itself

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Message #11 received at 43773 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Enge <andreas <at> enge.fr>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 43773 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#43773: [PATCH] offload: Improve load normalization and
 configurability.
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 2020 09:59:25 +0200

Hello Maxim,

On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 11:21:12PM -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> Fixes <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/43773>.
> 
> The computed normalized load was previously obtained by dividing the load
> average as found in /proc/loadavg by the number of parallel builds defined for
> a build machine.
> 
> This can be fixed by normalizing using the available number of cores instead
> of the number of parallel jobs.

this looks like a good change to me; actually I ended up encoding the number
of cores in the "speed" field instead, which is a dirty hack around the
core problem.

Andreas

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