If you can require a recent kernel, you could use cgroups: http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/06/manage-your-performance-with-cgroups-and-projects.html
No one has integrated this with hadoop yet as it's still pretty new, and Hadoop clusters are meant to be run on unshared hardware. -Todd On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:13 AM, Ryan Rawson <ryano...@gmail.com> wrote: > The only thing you could do is to have the tasktracker nice the child when > its exceeding its reservation. Aside from that, its hard to limit without > killing a process. > > On Jan 25, 2010 12:23 AM, "Naveen Kumar Prasad" <naveenkum...@huawei.com> > wrote: > > > This functionality may not be readily available with Hadoop. > > But it would be appreciable if anyone can help me in understanding how to > go > about developing this feature. > > Regards, Naveen Kumar HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO.,LTD. huawei_logo > > Address: Huawei Industrial Base Bantian Longgang Shenzhen 518129, P.R.China > www.huawei.com ---------... > > -----Original Message----- From: Allen Wittenauer [mailto: > awittena...@linkedin.com] Sent: Monday, J... >