How about just specify machines to run the task on? I haven't seen it anywhere..
-----Original Message----- From: Devaraj Das [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 9:55 PM To: core-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: task assignment managemens. No that is not possible today. However, you might want to look at the TaskScheduler to see if you can implement a scheduler to provide this kind of task scheduling. In the current hadoop, one point regarding computationally intensive task is that if the machine is not able to keep up with the rest of the machines (and the task on that machine is running slower than others), speculative execution, if enabled, can help a lot. Also, implicitly, faster/better machines get more work than the slower machines. On 9/8/08 3:27 AM, "Dmitry Pushkarev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear Hadoop users, > > > > Is it possible without using java manage task assignment to implement some > simple rules? Like do not launch more that 1 instance of crawling task on > a machine, and do not run data intensive tasks on remote machines, and do > not run computationally intensive tasks on single-core machines:etc. > > > > Now it's done by failing tasks that decided to run on a wrong machine, but I > hope to find some solution on jobtracker side.. > > > > --- > > Dmitry >