Re: only one map or reduce job per time on one node

2013-11-06 Thread DSuiter RDX
I suspect that the reason no-one is responding with good answers is that fundamentally, it seems like what you are trying to do runs against the reason Hadoop is designed the way it is. A parallel process framework is defeated if you force it to not work concurrently... Maybe you should look into

only one map or reduce job per time on one node

2013-11-05 Thread John
hi, I have a cluster of 7 nodes. Every node has 2 maps-lots and 1 reduce slot. Is it possible to force the jobtracker executing only 2 map jobs or 1 reduce job per time? I have found this configuration option: mapred.reduce.slowstart.completed.maps. I think this will do exactly what I want If I

Re: only one map or reduce job per time on one node

2013-11-05 Thread Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
Why do you want to do this? +Vinod On Nov 5, 2013, at 9:17 AM, John wrote: Is it possible to force the jobtracker executing only 2 map jobs or 1 reduce job per time? -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is

Re: only one map or reduce job per time on one node

2013-11-05 Thread John
Because my node swaps the memory if the 2 map slots + 1 reduce is occupied with my job. Sure I can minimize the max memory for the map/reduce process. I tried this already, but I got a out of memory exception if set the max heap size for the map/reduce process to low for my mr job. kind regards