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Arun C Murthy commented on HADOOP-2573: --------------------------------------- I'd like to throw *job priority* into this festering pool... At least changing the job-priority (done by the cluster-admin) should in a change in number of max_slots... thoughts? > limit running tasks per job > --------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-2573 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2573 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: mapred > Reporter: Doug Cutting > Fix For: 0.17.0 > > > It should be possible to specify a limit to the number of tasks per job > permitted to run simultaneously. If, for example, you have a cluster of 50 > nodes, with 100 map task slots and 100 reduce task slots, and the configured > limit is 25 simultaneous tasks/job, then four or more jobs will be able to > run at a time. This will permit short jobs to pass longer-running jobs. > This also avoids some problems we've seen with HOD, where nodes are > underutilized in their tail, and it should permit improved input locality. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.