Assume I have 4 actors, each requiring 2 CPUs to run a task (8 CPUs required in total) . When doing ray.init, I request to use 4 CPUs only. So there is not enough CPUs to run the tasks simultaneously. How to ask the 4 actors to share the resources, i.e., execute 2 tasks at a time, instead o…

Note that this post is a simplified version of a previous one

What about MyACtor.options(num_cpus=1).remote() ?

Ask actors to share resources, without deadlocking

xiaohan2012 November 18, 2021, 8:01am 3

I managed to have a “actor-free” solution. The main idea is to use remote functions instead of actors. See more details at this post.

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