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Arun C Murthy commented on MAPREDUCE-5583:
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I'm very concerned about allowing this sort of control to the end user without
checks/balances. If every one does the same I want max of n tasks, all
resources in the cluster can deadlock. This is one of the main reasons we
haven't supported this. I'm still against it.
> Ability to limit running map and reduce tasks
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> Key: MAPREDUCE-5583
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-5583
> Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: mr-am, mrv2
> Affects Versions: 0.23.9, 2.1.1-beta
> Reporter: Jason Lowe
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> It would be nice if users could specify a limit to the number of map or
> reduce tasks that are running simultaneously. Occasionally users are
> performing operations in tasks that can lead to DDoS scenarios if too many
> tasks run simultaneously (e.g.: accessing a database, web service, etc.).
> Having the ability to throttle the number of tasks simultaneously running
> would provide users a way to mitigate issues with too many tasks on a large
> cluster attempting to access a serivce at any one time.
> This is similar to the functionality requested by MAPREDUCE-224 and
> implemented by HADOOP-3412 but was dropped in mrv2.
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