Dmitriy, All the nodes will request its own continuous memory region that takes 70-80% of all RAM from an underlying operation system. However, the operating system will not outfit the nodes with physical pages mapped to RAM immediately allowing every node's process to start successfully. The nodes will communicate to RAM via a virtual memory which in its turn will give an access to physical pages whenever is needed applying low level eviction and swapping techniques.
Alex G., please confirm that we’re applying on this low level guarantees in our page memory impl. — Denis > On Apr 17, 2017, at 5:50 PM, Dmitriy Setrakyan <dsetrak...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 5:46 PM, Denis Magda <dma...@apache.org> wrote: > >> Guys, >> >> If a memory region is not expandable can we calculate the size of the >> default one automatically rather than setting it to predefined value like 1 >> GB, 512 MB, etc. ? >> >> For instance, when a node is being started it finds out how much RAM is >> available and requests 70-80% of it for the default memory region usage. >> This should help us avoid this usability issue caused by the fact that we >> hard code the size. >> > > Denis, what happens if user plans to start multiple nodes on the same box?
