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Re: [Anima] ANIMA when there is a system-wide issue

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Mon, 30 November 2020 23:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Anima] ANIMA when there is a system-wide issue
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Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
    > Perhaps there is something we should specify in ANIMA to prevent the
    > ANIMA infrastructure falling into this sort of trap: when there is a
    > system-wide issue (such as hitting an O/S resource limit everywhere at
    > the same time) it also prevents the autonomic mechanisms from working.

I think you mean, that it should not also prevent the autonomic system?
I think that key is:
  1) allocate resources (including threads) up-front
  2) do not dynamically allocate threads per interface, but rather use async
    routines.

But, I don't know what we could write into the specification to make this
happen.  It seems that we really just need smart implementers.

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