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Stop recommending storage providers in colocations centres to use containers.

Open dd45e640b42e6da7da96faee3996ef7c opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

https://docs.filecoin.io/mine/lotus/seal-workers/#lotus-worker-co-location recommends using containers to separate resources for workers when colocating them

i think in almost all cases that makes no sense. the use cases where this makes sense are very limited. at least explain when it makes sense and when sharing resources is a perfectly fine way to do it.

i do not think that containers are an appropriate way to do anything in a production system - but i might be alone in the desert with that...

we really need use case to explain how to configue the lotus-worker when running lotus worker in multiple GPU host.

de-authority avatar Jul 15 '21 09:07 de-authority

quick survey

https://filecoinproject.slack.com/archives/CPFTWMY7N/p1626340078227100

For those unable to see the survey @f8-ptrk linked to, the results of using containers to not using container was a resounding 0 to 8.

@f8-ptrk, would you say that the following paragraph (taken from the link you provided) is incorrect:

The only case where running multiple workers per machine may be a good idea is when there are multiple GPUs available, as lotus currently only supports a single GPU - in that case, it's recommended to run workers in separate containers with non-overlapping resources (separate CPU cores, separate RAM allocations, separate GPUs)

If so, we could just remove that paragraph.

johnnymatthews avatar Sep 07 '21 18:09 johnnymatthews

sounds fair. maybe mention that this could be done with containers - recommending is just too much i think