Toby DiPasquale wrote:
Why does Hadoop use the Client JVM? I've been told that you should almost never use the Client JVM and instead use the Server JVM for anything even remotely long-running. Is the Server JVM less stable?
It doesn't specify the client JVM, rather it just doesn't specify the server JVM (although one can easily do so by changing conf/hadoop-env.sh). The reason I originally did it that way was that I thought '-server' was a Sun-specific option, and didn't want the script to only work with Sun's JVM. If that's not the case, or you feel that configuring things in Sun-specific ways by default is acceptable, please file an issue in Jira.
Doug
