Sid, For such a small cluster, just put the Jobtracker and Namenode on the same machine and the Tasktrackers and Datanodes in pairs on the other machines. I can't think of anything else that would have an impact on performance for you.
J-D On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Siddharth Malhotra < sid86.malho...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, > > I am student and working on a project using Hadoop. I have successfully > implemented the project on single node and Pseudo Distributed Mode. > > I would now be implementing it on a 5 node cluster but I wanted know if > there would be any specific way I should setup the Tasktraker, Jobtracker > && > Namenode, Datanode. Like should I setup the Namenode, JOBtracker to the > same > node or should I put it on different nodes. Similerly can I also setup the > Datanode and Tasktracker on the Masternode or only on the slave nodes. Does > any type of specific configuration help to improve the performance as such? > > Awaiting a reply soon. > > Thanks > > Sid > > -- > Siddharth Malhotra > > Mobile: +41 76 275 3991 > > Mail: : sid86.malho...@gmail.com >
