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Aniket Mokashi commented on PIG-2672: ------------------------------------- Opened PIG-3954 to document this and PIG-3955 to fix the file descriptor issue. > Optimize the use of DistributedCache > ------------------------------------ > > Key: PIG-2672 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-2672 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Rohini Palaniswamy > Assignee: Aniket Mokashi > Fix For: 0.13.0 > > Attachments: PIG-2672-10.patch, PIG-2672-5.patch, PIG-2672-7.patch, > PIG-2672.patch > > > Pig currently copies jar files to a temporary location in hdfs and then adds > them to DistributedCache for each job launched. This is inefficient in terms > of > * Space - The jars are distributed to task trackers for every job taking > up lot of local temporary space in tasktrackers. > * Performance - The jar distribution impacts the job launch time. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)