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<div>Indeed! 5 is standard:</div>
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<div><a href="http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-spot-limits.html">http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/using-spot-limits.html</a></div>
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<div>Defaults are stingy, but they are generally easily relaxed with a limit increase request (details in the link above).</div>
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<div>Good luck!</div>
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<div>-Hugh</div>
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On May 26, 2014, at 12:53, "Cedar McKay" <<a href="mailto:cmckay@uw.edu">cmckay@uw.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div><span>Amazon is very stingy with their max number of spot instances. For some types they only let you have a few spot instances. For example, I was limited to five high memory spot instances, but I asked them and they raised my limit to eight. In other
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>On May 26, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Torstein Fjermestad <<a href="mailto:tfjermestad@gmail.com">tfjermestad@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>!!! ERROR - MaxSpotInstanceCountExceeded: Max spot instance count exceeded</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>The message is fairly obvious, but I find it suspicious because currently my cluster only consists of one master node and four slave nodes.
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Is this really the maximum size of the cluster, or is the error message caused by something else?</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Thanks in advance for your help.</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Regards,</span><br>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span>Torstein Fjermestad</span><br>
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