Archive Topic Map

Scheduling & Placement

Scheduling is economics and ethics: who runs where, at what cost, under what constraints, and what happens when scarcity arrives.

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Orientation

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Requests are promises

The scheduler uses requests to decide placement. If your requests are dishonest, you get a dishonest cluster: noisy neighbors, eviction cascades, and capacity plans built on sand.

Placement constraints are powerful. They are also easy to make impossible. Learn the difference between ‘preferred’ and ‘required’, and treat taints as governance.

Requests drive placement; limits shape runtime behavior and throttling.
Affinity and topology constraints can silently eliminate all nodes.
Priority and preemption are governance tools; misuse causes conflict and instability.