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Hyunsik Choi commented on GIRAPH-12: ------------------------------------ You mean that we need some benchmark program to test the performance and scalability of message passing methods. If so, I'll add two benchmarking programs, which are sending messages to peers in random and skewed distribution respectively. For this, I'll create another issue. Let me know what you think :) > Investigate communication improvements > -------------------------------------- > > Key: GIRAPH-12 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GIRAPH-12 > Project: Giraph > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: bsp > Reporter: Avery Ching > Assignee: Hyunsik Choi > Priority: Minor > Attachments: GIRAPH-12_1.patch > > > Currently every worker will start up a thread to communicate with every other > workers. Hadoop RPC is used for communication. For instance if there are > 400 workers, each worker will create 400 threads. This ends up using a lot > of memory, even with the option > -Dmapred.child.java.opts="-Xss64k". > It would be good to investigate using frameworks like Netty or custom roll > our own to improve this situation. By moving away from Hadoop RPC, we would > also make compatibility of different Hadoop versions easier. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira