Re: Max spot instance count exceeded

From: Torstein Fjermestad <no email>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 10:31:57 +0200

Thanks to all of you for this useful piece of information.

Regards,
Torstein


On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 9:12 PM, MacMullan, Hugh
<hughmac_at_wharton.upenn.edu>wrote:

> Indeed! 5 is standard:
>
> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-spot-limits.html
>
> Defaults are stingy, but they are generally easily relaxed with a limit
> increase request (details in the link above).
>
> Good luck!
>
> -Hugh
>
> On May 26, 2014, at 12:53, "Cedar McKay" <cmckay_at_uw.edu> wrote:
>
> Amazon is very stingy with their max number of spot instances. For some
> types they only let you have a few spot instances. For example, I was
> limited to five high memory spot instances, but I asked them and they
> raised my limit to eight. In other words, I don't think there's anything
> wrong with star cluster.
>
>
> Cedar
>
> On May 26, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Torstein Fjermestad <tfjermestad_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
> Dear all,
>
>
> when trying to add two new nodes to my cluster, I get the following
> error message:
>
>
> Launching node(s): node006, node007
>
> !!! ERROR - MaxSpotInstanceCountExceeded: Max spot instance count
> exceeded
>
>
> The message is fairly obvious, but I find it suspicious because
> currently my cluster only consists of one master node and four slave
> nodes.
>
>
> Is this really the maximum size of the cluster, or is the error message
> caused by something else?
>
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Torstein Fjermestad
>
>
>
>
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