RE: Hadoop cluster optimization

2011-08-22 Thread Avi Vaknin
spilling ? Thanks. Avi -Original Message- From: Allen Wittenauer [mailto:a...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 7:06 AM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Hadoop cluster optimization On Aug 21, 2011, at 7:17 PM, Michel Segel wrote: Avi, First why 32 bit OS? You have

Re: Hadoop cluster optimization

2011-08-22 Thread אבי ווקנין
cluster optimization On Aug 21, 2011, at 7:17 PM, Michel Segel wrote: Avi, First why 32 bit OS? You have a 64 bit processor that has 4 cores hyper threaded looks like 8cpus. With only 1.7gb of mem, there likely isn't much of a reason to use a 64-bit OS. The machines (as you point

RE: Hadoop cluster optimization

2011-08-22 Thread Ian Michael Gumby
. (You said you're running this on EC2... ) Note: I'm not an expert on EC2. I guess I'm lucky that I have my own sandbox to play in... :-) HTH -Mike Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:00:27 +0300 Subject: Re: Hadoop cluster optimization From: avivakni...@gmail.com To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Hi

Re: Hadoop cluster optimization

2011-08-22 Thread Allen Wittenauer
On Aug 22, 2011, at 3:00 AM, אבי ווקנין wrote: I assumed that the 1.7GB RAM will be the bottleneck in my environment that's why I am trying to change it now. I shut down the 4 datanodes with 1.7GB RAM (Amazon EC2 small instance) and replaced them with 2 datanodes with 7.5GB RAM (Amazon

RE: Hadoop cluster optimization

2011-08-21 Thread stanley.shi
this helps -Original Message- From: Avi Vaknin [mailto:avivakni...@gmail.com] Sent: 2011年8月21日 快下班了 7:57 To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Hadoop cluster optimization Hi all ! How are you? My name is Avi and I have been fascinated by Apache Hadoop for the last few months. I

Re: Hadoop cluster optimization

2011-08-21 Thread Michel Segel
Avi, First why 32 bit OS? You have a 64 bit processor that has 4 cores hyper threaded looks like 8cpus. With only 1.7 GB you're going to be limited on the number of slots you can configure. I'd say run ganglia but that would take resources away from you. It sounds like the default parameters

Re: Hadoop cluster optimization

2011-08-21 Thread Allen Wittenauer
On Aug 21, 2011, at 7:17 PM, Michel Segel wrote: Avi, First why 32 bit OS? You have a 64 bit processor that has 4 cores hyper threaded looks like 8cpus. With only 1.7gb of mem, there likely isn't much of a reason to use a 64-bit OS. The machines (as you point out) are already tight