Hi Ramya, If you are using the hive-default.xml and have not overwritten the hive.metastore.warehouse.dir parameter then by default the tables will get placed in
/user/hive/warehouse in hdfs. Ashish -----Original Message----- From: Amandeep Khurana [mailto:ama...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 12:52 AM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Issues with performance on Hadoop/Hive Answers inline Amandeep Khurana Computer Science Graduate Student University of California, Santa Cruz On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Ramiya V <ramiy...@persistent.co.in> wrote: > Hi, > > I have set up a 4 (physica) nodes Hadoop cluster. Configuration: 2GB > RAM each machine. Currently am using the sub-project Hive for firing > queries on 45GB of data. I have certain queries that need to be > resolved:- > > 1) The performance that I am getting with the above setup is quite > bad. It takes app 39 minutes for simple select query (with where > clause). I have set the mapred.map.tasks=13 and mapred.reduce.tasks=7. > Is this setting good enough for the above setup? Are there any > significant configuration parameters I need to set for getting a better > performance on Hive? > > Check on the resource utilization. I think you shouldnt be running more than 3 mappers + 1 reducer on each node at any time (given the hardware you are using). But then that mostly depends on the amount of work being done in the mappers and reducers. 2) Does anybody know how exactly the data on HDFS is distributed across > nodes in a cluster? Also when we load the tables in Hive (by firing > Load command on master node),how and where is the data placed on HDFS > in a cluster? > Files are divided into blocks and the blocks are stored on the Datanodes.. Each block is 64MB by default. I'm not sure how the blocks are distributed among the datanodes.. 3) How and when does the data replication for HDFS take place in a cluster? > Currently I have set the dfs replication factor=1. How does this > affect the performance? > Once you put the data into the hdfs, it starts replicating the blocks. However, the put is successful as soon as one block gets created... > > 3) Does adding a Virtual Machine to a physical machine cluster bring > about significant degradation in the performance? > Dont have numbers for this, but it does impact the performance. Moreover, your hardware resources are low and there is really no value add in using virtual machines on top of it. > Please let me know asap. > > Thanks, > Ramya > > > > > DISCLAIMER > ========== > This e-mail may contain privileged and confidential information which > is the property of Persistent Systems Ltd. It is intended only for the > use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. If you are > not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to read, retain, > copy, print, distribute or use this message. If you have received this > communication in error, please notify the sender and delete all copies of > this message. > Persistent Systems Ltd. does not accept any liability for virus > infected mails. >
