# Setting this to 0 means the dynamic instance limit will
# start at MaxInstances.
#
- # Situations where you may want to set this (to a value lower
+ # Situations where you may want to set this (to a value less
# than MaxInstances) would be when there is significant
- # variability in the actual cloud resources available and you
- # to be conservative in how many parallel supervisors
- # (workflows) it launches.
+ # variability or uncertainty in the actual cloud resources
+ # available. Upon reaching InitialQuotaEstimate the
+ # dispatcher will switch to a more conservative behavior with
+ # slower instance start to avoid over-shooting cloud resource
+ # limits.
InitialQuotaEstimate: 0
# Maximum fraction of available instance capacity allowed to