Re: Scheduling, prioritizing some jobs

2010-01-29 Thread Erik Forsberg
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:12:07 -0800 Matei Zaharia ma...@eecs.berkeley.edu wrote: Hi Erik, With four priority levels like this, you should just be able to use Hadoop's priorities, because it has five of them (very high, high, normal, low and very low). You can just use the default scheduler

Re: Scheduling, prioritizing some jobs

2010-01-28 Thread Matei Zaharia
Hi Erik, With four priority levels like this, you should just be able to use Hadoop's priorities, because it has five of them (very high, high, normal, low and very low). You can just use the default scheduler for this (i.e. don't enable either the fair or the capacity scheduler). Or am I

Re: Scheduling, prioritizing some jobs

2010-01-25 Thread Erik Forsberg
Hi! Simplifying my question: Can I configure Hadoop so that: *) I have four scheduling pools: highprio-daily, highprio-monthly, lowprio-daily, lowprio-monthly. *) Tasks for jobs that are put in highprio-daily always get priority before tasks in highprio-monthly. Highprio-monthly always

Scheduling, prioritizing some jobs

2010-01-22 Thread Erik Forsberg
Hi! I'm currently trying to wrap my head around the different schedulers available. Running Cloudera 0.18.3, there's both the Fair Scheduler and the Capacity Scheduler for me to play with. I have a number of jobs that are run nightly. Some of them have tighter deadlines than other, so if there