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Runping Qi commented on HADOOP-910:
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I just tried a large job with 8400+ mappers.
It is clear that overlapping copying and merge will pay off a lot.
Paralizing merging will pay off too. T
he main merge thread should just keep tracks the mergeable files and
start actual merge thread whenever a merge is warranted, up to a predefined
limit of merge threads.
The optimization discussed in earlier comments still applicable, i.e. try to
merge small files and avoid merge large files as much as possible.
> Reduces can do merges for the on-disk map output files in parallel with their
> copying
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> Key: HADOOP-910
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-910
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: mapred
> Reporter: Devaraj Das
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> Proposal to extend the parallel in-memory-merge/copying, that is being done
> as part of HADOOP-830, to the on-disk files.
> Today, the Reduces dump the map output files to disk and the final merge
> happens only after all the map outputs have been collected. It might make
> sense to parallelize this part. That is, whenever a Reduce has collected
> io.sort.factor number of segments on disk, it initiates a merge of those and
> creates one big segment. If the rate of copying is faster than the merge, we
> can probably have multiple threads doing parallel merges of independent sets
> of io.sort.factor number of segments. If the rate of copying is not as fast
> as merge, we stand to gain a lot - at the end of copying of all the map
> outputs, we will be left with a small number of segments for the final merge
> (which hopefully will feed the reduce directly (via the RawKeyValueIterator)
> without having to hit the disk for writing additional output segments).
> If the disk bandwidth is higher than the network bandwidth, we have a good
> story, I guess, to do such a thing.
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