It is the total number of transceivers (readers and writers) reported by all the datanodes. Datanode reports this count in periodic heartbeat to the namenode.
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Nick Niemeyer <nnieme...@riotgames.com>wrote: > Can someone please explain what TotalLoad represents below? Thanks for > your response in advance! > > Version: hadoop-0.20-namenode-0.20.2+923.197-1 > > Example pulled from the output of via the name node: > # curl -i http://localhost:50070/jmx > > { > "name" : "hadoop:service=NameNode,name=FSNamesystemState", > "modelerType" : "org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.server.namenode.FSNamesystem", > "CapacityTotal" : #, > "CapacityUsed" : #, > "CapacityRemaining" : #, > * "TotalLoad" : #,* > "BlocksTotal" : #, > "FilesTotal" : #, > "PendingReplicationBlocks" : 0, > "UnderReplicatedBlocks" : 0, > "ScheduledReplicationBlocks" : 0, > "FSState" : "Operational" > } > > > Thanks, > Nick > -- http://hortonworks.com/download/