I agree that this might actually be pretty bad recommendation especially for streaming programs depending on the state backend.
Gyula On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 11:18 PM Greg Hogan <c...@greghogan.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > The Flink docs recommend "if the cluster is exclusively running Flink, the > total amount of available memory per machine minus some memory for the > operating system (maybe 1-2 GB) is a good value" [1]. > > Would it be worthwhile to recommend a higher memory reserve and note that > the file write and read-ahead caches must also fit in memory? > > [1] > https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-master/setup/config.html > > Greg >