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Thejas M Nair updated PIG-1466: ------------------------------- Attachment: PIG-1466.patch With the changes in the patch, the logs from SpillableMemoryManager will look like this - 2010-08-18 18:22:44,365 INFO org.apache.pig.impl.util.SpillableMemoryManager: first memory handler call- Usage threshold exceeded init = 5439488(5312K) used = 657702912(642288K) committed = 715849728(699072K) max = 715849728(699072K) 2010-08-18 18:22:44,728 INFO org.apache.pig.impl.util.SpillableMemoryManager: first memory handler call - Collection threshold exceeded init = 5439488(5312K) used = 658437416(643005K) committed = 715849728(699072K) max = 715849728(699072K) 2010-08-18 18:27:51,174 INFO org.apache.pig.impl.util.SpillableMemoryManager: Spilled an estimate of 73675890 bytes from 1 objects. init = 5439488(5312K) used = 511215656(499234K) committed = 659881984(644416K) max = 715849728(699072K) 2010-08-18 18:29:16,739 INFO org.apache.pig.impl.util.SpillableMemoryManager: Spilled an estimate of 418063724 bytes from 1 objects. init = 5439488(5312K) used = 563165736(549966K) committed = 659881984(644416K) max = 715849728(699072K) 2010-08-18 18:29:22,274 INFO org.apache.pig.impl.util.SpillableMemoryManager: Spilled an estimate of 443888012 bytes from 1 objects. init = 5439488(5312K) used = 553174984(540209K) committed = 715849728(699072K) max = 715849728(699072K) > Improve log messages for memory usage > ------------------------------------- > > Key: PIG-1466 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1466 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: impl > Affects Versions: 0.7.0 > Reporter: Ashutosh Chauhan > Assignee: Thejas M Nair > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 0.8.0 > > Attachments: PIG-1466.patch > > > For anything more then a moderately sized dataset Pig usually spits following > messages: > {code} > 2010-05-27 18:28:31,659 INFO org.apache.pig.impl.util.SpillableMemoryManager: > low memory handler called (Usage > threshold exceeded) init = 4194304(4096K) used = 672012960(656262K) committed > = 954466304(932096K) max = > 954466304(932096K) > 2010-05-27 18:10:52,653 INFO org.apache.pig.impl.util.SpillableMemoryManager: > low memory handler called (Collection > threshold exceeded) init = 4194304(4096K) used = 954466304(932096K) committed > = 954466304(932096K) max = > 954466304(932096K) > {code} > This seems to confuse users a lot. Once these messages are printed, users > tend to believe that Pig is having hard time with memory, is spilling to disk > etc. but in fact Pig might be cruising along at ease. We should be little > more careful what to print in logs. Currently these are printed when a > notification is sent by JVM and some other conditions are met which may not > necessarily indicate low memory condition. Furthermore, with > {{InternalCachedBag}} embraced everywhere in favor of {{DefaultBag}}, these > messages have lost their usefulness. At the every least, we should lower the > log level at which these are printed. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.