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dhruba borthakur updated MAPREDUCE-936:
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    Assignee: Zheng Shao

hi zheng, would appreciate it a lot if u can provide a unit test for this one. 
Thanks.

> Allow a load difference in fairshare scheduler
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>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-936
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-936
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: contrib/fair-share
>            Reporter: Zheng Shao
>            Assignee: Zheng Shao
>         Attachments: MAPREDUCE-936.1.patch
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> The problem we are facing: It takes a long time for all tasks of a job to get 
> scheduled on the cluster, even if the cluster is almost empty.
> There are two reasons that together lead to this situation:
> 1. The load factor makes sure each TT runs the same number of tasks. (This is 
> the part that this patch tries to change).
> 2. The scheduler tries to schedule map tasks locally (first node-local, then 
> rack-local). There is a wait time (mapred.fairscheduler.localitywait.node and 
> mapred.fairscheduler.localitywait.rack, both are around 10 sec in our conf), 
> and accumulated wait time (JobInfo.localityWait). The accumulated wait time 
> is reset to 0 whenever a non-local map task is scheduled. That means it takes 
> N * wait_time to schedule N non-local map tasks.
> Because of 1, a lot of TT will not be able to take more tasks, even if they 
> have free slots. As a result, a lot of the map tasks cannot be scheduled 
> locally.
> Because of 2, it's really hard to schedule a non-local task.
> As a result, sometimes we are seeing that it takes more than 2 minutes to 
> schedule all the mappers of a job.

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