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authorDina Belova <dbelova@mirantis.com>2012-05-03 15:40:50 +0400
committerDina Belova <dbelova@mirantis.com>2012-05-05 13:24:13 +0400
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Mistake with the documentation about cost function's weight corrected.
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@@ -225,11 +225,16 @@ The line with this description looks the following way:
**function_name_weight**.
As for default cost function, it would be: `compute_fill_first_cost_fn_weight`,
-and by default it is 1.0.
+and by default it is -1.0.
::
- --compute_fill_first_cost_fn_weight=1.0
+ --compute_fill_first_cost_fn_weight=-1.0
+
+Negative function's weight means that the more free RAM Compute Node has, the
+better it is. Nova tries to spread instances as much as possible over the
+Compute Nodes. Positive weight here would mean that Nova would fill up a single
+Compute Node first.
Filter Scheduler finds local list of acceptable hosts by repeated filtering and
weighing. Each time it chooses a host, it virtually consumes resources on it,