How Other Command Line Options Affect Auto-scaling

The following existing command line options also affect the auto-scaling feature:

• -thread_count and -thread_count_per_split: When these two options are specified, mlcp will use a fixed number of threads and auto-scaling will not happen.

• -max_threads: When -max_threads is specified, mlcp will cap the maximum thread count, and auto-scaling cannot go beyond this number. This is to prevent the client-side from running out of memory as the DHS cluster may have a huge number of nodes. By default, -max_threads is not set.