[DRMAA-WG] DRMAA2 Draft 6, next steps, no conf call

[Mariusz Mamoński]

2011/6/24 Daniel Gruber <dgruber at univa.com>:
> "Load-value normalizing" :
>
> Am 23.06.2011 um 23:48 schrieb Andre Merzky:
>
>> Hi Mariusz,
>>
>> some comments inlined :-)
>>
>> Cheers, Andre.
>>
>>
>> 2011/6/23 Mariusz Mamoński <mamonski at man.poznan.pl>:
>>>
>>> "The load value MUST be always within the <0;1> range (inclusive). The
>>> value 0 should indicate that machine is idling, while the 1 that all
>>> computing units are used"
>>
>> Sounds sensible to me, although I have often seen load values >1,
>> mostly indicating that a machine is overloaded.  You may want to
>> change the MUST into a SHOULD thus?
>
> I disagree! We agreed that the value "is similar to the uptime" command.
> Load values indeed can be bigger than 1 because they measure
> the amount of "runnable" processes in average. There is no need to
> artificially normalize the value somehow because the max. number is
> unknown. We should take whatever the DRM is reporting us, and this
> is similar to the uptime command (and by the way also depends on the
> amount of cores). This is we agreed on.

ok, you convinced me. Lets leave this as it is.

>
>
> Daniel



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Mariusz