Youpeng, The *container* is a generic concept which allows the ResourceManager to provide you a specific amount of resources (memory, cpu etc.).
mapred.map.child.java.opts is part of the cmd-line of the Map task's jvm which specifies the heap size. So, in YARN, mapred.map.child.java.opts should be less than memory allocated to container. Remember that container memory is physical memory of the unix process, while mapred.map.child.java.opts is heap size which doesn't account for non-heap memory. So, with a container size of 2G, the max heap size you can allocate is ~1.6G or so. hth, Arun On Feb 4, 2013, at 3:38 AM, YouPeng Yang wrote: > Hi All > > I use YARN and MR.I am confused by the relationship between > mapred.map.child.java.opts and Container resource allocation. > if I setup mapred.map.child.java.opts = -Xmx2048m ,on nodemanager > how Containers will be allocated according to this settings. > what about mapred.reduce.child.java.opts? > > regards > Youpeng Yang -- Arun C. Murthy Hortonworks Inc. http://hortonworks.com/
