You can use yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb to set the limit on each NodeManager.
You should have a good look at http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/r0.23.0/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/ClusterSetup.html . It has enough information to get you a good distance. HTH. +Vinod On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:44 AM, raghavendhra rahul <raghavendhrara...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > How to set the maximum number of containers to be executed in > each node. > So that at a time only that much of containers will be running > in that node..