Sumit,

Yes, that's the reason.

Best,
Siyuan

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Sumit Mohanty <smoha...@hortonworks.com>
wrote:

> Siyuan,
>
> can you clarify the underlying requirement that requires an application to
> specify a percentage of available memory? One, as Steve suggested, could be
> to ask for 51% of available on node to guarantee that only one instance can
> be active on the node. Were there other reasons?
>
> -Sumit
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I created SLIDER-691 for this feature.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Steve Loughran <ste...@hortonworks.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I don't even think we can ask yarn for the percentage of memory
> > >
> > > I do understand what you are trying to do: ask for >51%.
> > >
> > > We could do something where we can query YARN for the maximum amount an
> > app
> > > can ask for (the AM finds this out when registered), and the capacity
> > could
> > > be derived as a percentage of that.
> > > Rather than percentage of available RAM, it's just a fraction of what
> you
> > > are allowed.
> > >
> > >
> > > On 2 December 2014 at 01:49, Sumit Mohanty <smoha...@hortonworks.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > That is not possible. The number provided (# of MB) is used to ask
> for
> > > > container from YARN and YARN only accepts numbers.
> > > >
> > > > % of total on each node also becomes an issue when nodes can have
> > varying
> > > > value of total memory available. This is common for heterogeneous
> > > clusters
> > > > where hosts may have different value for available memory and core,
> > etc.
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 1:39 PM, hsy...@gmail.com <hsy...@gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi guys,
> > > > >
> > > > > For each component instance, Is there a way to specify the % of
> total
> > > > > memory of each node instead of # of MB?
> > > > >
> > > > > Best,
> > > > > Siyuan
> > > > >
> > > >
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