On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Allen Wittenauer <a...@apache.org> wrote: > > On Mar 31, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Travis Crawford wrote: > >> Is anyone familiar with how the distributed cache deals when datasets >> larger than the total cache size are referenced? I've disabled the job >> that caused this situation but am wondering if I can configure things >> more defensively. > > I've started building specific file systems on drives to store the map > reduce spill space. It seems to be the only reliable way to prevent MR from > going nuts. Sure, some jobs may fail, but that seems to be a better strategy > than the alternative. >
Interesting. So for example, say you have 2 disks in a DataNode+TaskTracker machine. You'd make two partitions on each disk, and expose 4 partitions to the system, then give two partitions (one from each disk) to each app? Is the idea here to prevent runaway jobs from causing DataNode disks from filling up, which causes write failures? --travis
