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Owen O'Malley commented on HADOOP-4035:
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Now that we are doing this for 0.20, the memory configuration should be changed
to be a fraction for physical RAM. Ie. mapred.tasktracker.memory.max-fraction
which takes a float and computes the maximum. Operations teams don't want to
specify the memory on each machine. They want to have a global configuration
for all of the slaves.
It is important to report this total to the JT, so that it can be displayed
and/or used by the scheduler. If you want to include the redundant information
about the allocated information that is ok. But the max available should be
sent too.
Defining a cluster configurable limit for the max memory for any task is fine.
> Modify the capacity scheduler (HADOOP-3445) to schedule tasks based on memory
> requirements and task trackers free memory
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> Key: HADOOP-4035
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4035
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: contrib/capacity-sched
> Affects Versions: 0.19.0
> Reporter: Hemanth Yamijala
> Assignee: Vinod K V
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 0.20.0
>
> Attachments: 4035.1.patch, HADOOP-4035-20080918.1.txt,
> HADOOP-4035-20081006.1.txt, HADOOP-4035-20081006.txt, HADOOP-4035-20081008.txt
>
>
> HADOOP-3759 introduced configuration variables that can be used to specify
> memory requirements for jobs, and also modified the tasktrackers to report
> their free memory. The capacity scheduler in HADOOP-3445 should schedule
> tasks based on these parameters. A task that is scheduled on a TT that uses
> more than the default amount of memory per slot can be viewed as effectively
> using more than one slot, as it would decrease the amount of free memory on
> the TT by more than the default amount while it runs. The scheduler should
> make the used capacity account for this additional usage while enforcing
> limits, etc.
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