Re: Draining/Decommisioning a tasktracker

2011-01-31 Thread Koji Noguchi
Hi Rishi, > P.S. - What credentials are required for commenting on an issue in Jira > It's open source. I'd say none :) My feature request is for a regular hadoop clusters whereas yours is pretty unique. Not sure if that Jira applies to your need or not. Koji On 1/31/11 9:21 AM, "rishi patha

Re: Draining/Decommisioning a tasktracker

2011-01-31 Thread rishi pathak
Still need to figure out whether a queue can be associated with a TT. i.e. TT acl for a queue in which tasks submitted to that queue will only be relayed to TT in the acl list for the queue. On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:51 PM, rishi pathak wrote: > Hi Koji, >Thanks for opening feature r

Re: Draining/Decommisioning a tasktracker

2011-01-31 Thread rishi pathak
Hi Koji, Thanks for opening feature request. Right now for the purpose stated earlier I have upgraded to hadoop to 0.21. , and trying to see if creating individual leaf level queues for every tasktracker and changing the state of it to 'stopped' before the expiry of the walltime. Seems l

Re: Draining/Decommisioning a tasktracker

2011-01-31 Thread Koji Noguchi
Rishi, > Using exclude list for TT will not help as Koji has already mentioned > It'll help a bit in a sense that no more tasks are assigned to that TaskTracker once excluded. As for TT decommissioning and map outputs handling, opened a Jira for further discussion. https://issues.apache.org/jir

Re: Draining/Decommisioning a tasktracker

2011-01-29 Thread rishi pathak
HI, Here is a description of what we are trying to achieve(whether it is possible or not is still not cear): We have large computing clusters used majorly for MPI jobs. We use PBS/Torque and Maui for resource allocation and scheduling. At most times utilization is very high except for very sma

Re: Draining/Decommisioning a tasktracker

2011-01-28 Thread Koji Noguchi
Hi Rishi, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5643 is added to version 0.21. Some 0.20 branches may have this as well. However, even with this feature, I believe TaskTracker immediately kills itself when all the tasks on the TaskTrackers finish but doesn't take care of the jobs still

Re: Draining/Decommisioning a tasktracker

2011-01-28 Thread Harsh J
Moving discussion to the MapReduce-User list: mapreduce-user@hadoop.apache.org Reply inline: On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:39 PM, rishi pathak wrote: > Hi, >        Is there a way to drain a tasktracker. What we require is not to > schedule any more map/red tasks onto a tasktracker(mark it offline)

Fwd: Draining/Decommisioning a tasktracker

2011-01-28 Thread rishi pathak
Hi, Is there a way to drain a tasktracker. What we require is not to schedule any more map/red tasks onto a tasktracker(mark it offline) but still the running tasks should not be affected. -- --- Rishi Pathak National PARAM Supercomputing Facility C-DAC, Pune, India -- --- Rishi P