Siyuan,

can you clarify the underlying requirement that requires an application to
specify a percentage of available memory? One, as Steve suggested, could be
to ask for 51% of available on node to guarantee that only one instance can
be active on the node. Were there other reasons?

-Sumit

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I created SLIDER-691 for this feature.
>
> Cheers
>
> On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Steve Loughran <ste...@hortonworks.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I don't even think we can ask yarn for the percentage of memory
> >
> > I do understand what you are trying to do: ask for >51%.
> >
> > We could do something where we can query YARN for the maximum amount an
> app
> > can ask for (the AM finds this out when registered), and the capacity
> could
> > be derived as a percentage of that.
> > Rather than percentage of available RAM, it's just a fraction of what you
> > are allowed.
> >
> >
> > On 2 December 2014 at 01:49, Sumit Mohanty <smoha...@hortonworks.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > That is not possible. The number provided (# of MB) is used to ask for
> > > container from YARN and YARN only accepts numbers.
> > >
> > > % of total on each node also becomes an issue when nodes can have
> varying
> > > value of total memory available. This is common for heterogeneous
> > clusters
> > > where hosts may have different value for available memory and core,
> etc.
> > >
> > > On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 1:39 PM, hsy...@gmail.com <hsy...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi guys,
> > > >
> > > > For each component instance, Is there a way to specify the % of total
> > > > memory of each node instead of # of MB?
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Siyuan
> > > >
> > >
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