Jason Lowe created MAPREDUCE-6219: ------------------------------------- Summary: Reduce memory required for FileInputFormat located status optimization Key: MAPREDUCE-6219 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-6219 Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 2.1.1-beta Reporter: Jason Lowe Priority: Minor
MAPREDUCE-1981 introduced an optimization to drastically reduce the number of namenode operations required to compute input splits when processing a directory. However it requires more memory to perform this optimization as it retains the full LocatedFileStatus object for all input files while computing the splits. This can lead to odd situations for users where using a directory as input can run the job client out of heap space but using directory/* as the input spec allows it to run within the original heap space. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)