The default is 1000MB. Try bumping down yarn.scheduler.fifo.minimum-allocation-mb to 100 (default is 1024) for FifoScheduler or yarn.scheduler.capacity.minimum-allocation-mb for CapacityScheduler.
Arun On Jan 17, 2012, at 11:37 PM, raghavendhra rahul wrote: > What could be the minimum size.Because my cluster size is 2.5GB > When i set 100 mb for each container only 2 instances are launched in each > node. > When i set 1000 mb for each container even then 2 instances are launched in > each node. > What could be the problem. > > Sorry for the cross posting... > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Arun C Murthy <a...@hortonworks.com> wrote: > Removing common-user@, please do not cross-post. > > On Jan 17, 2012, at 11:24 PM, raghavendhra rahul wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > What is the minimum size of the container in hadoop yarn. > > capability.setmemory(xx); > > The AM gets this information from RM via the return value for > AMRMProtocol.registerApplicationMaster. > > Arun > >