The group.name scheduler support was introduced in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3892 but may have been broken by the security changes present in 0.20.205. You'll need the fix presented in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2457 to have group.name support.
On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Austin Chungath <austi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am running fair scheduler on hadoop 0.20.205.0 > > http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.20.205.0/fair_scheduler.html > The above page talks about the following property > > *mapred.fairscheduler.poolnameproperty* > ** > which I can set to *group.name* > The default is user.name and when a user submits a job the fair scheduler > assigns each user's job to a pool which has the name of the user. > I am trying to change it to group.name so that the job is submitted to a > pool which has the name of the user's linux group. Thus all jobs from any > user from a specific group go to the same pool instead of an individual > pool for every user. > But *group.name* doesn't seem to work, has anyone tried this before? > > *user.name* and *mapred.job.queue.name* works. Is group.name supported in > 0.20.205.0 because I don't see it mentioned in the docs? > > Thanks, > Austin -- Harsh J
