# Creating actors when their amount is more than \`num\_cpus\`

**URL:** <https://discuss.ray.io/t/creating-actors-when-their-amount-is-more-than-num-cpus/1810>\
**Category:** Ray Core\
**Created:** [April 21, 2021, 8:01am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/creating-actors-when-their-amount-is-more-than-num-cpus/1810 "2021-04-21T08:01:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![FarzanT](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ray.io/farzant/32/908_2.png) [@FarzanT](https://discuss.ray.io/u/FarzanT)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 4:01am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/creating-actors-when-their-amount-is-more-than-num-cpus/1810/8 "2021-04-29T04:01:03Z")

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@rliaw I think this issue arises when I resume trials; I thought that only changes to hyper-parameters are ignored, but apparently changes to resource allocation per trial is also ignored? How can we distinguish the two? It would be beneficial/less confusing if newly specified resource allocations are adhered to.

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