Hi, Let me clarify few things. 1) you are making container requests which are not explicitly looking for certain nodes. (No white listing). 2) All nodes are identical in terms of resources (memory/cores) and every container requires same amount of resources. 3) All nodes have capacity to run say 2 containers. 4) You have 20 nodes.
Now if an application is running and is requesting 20 containers then you can not say that you will get all on different nodes (uniformly distributed). It more depends on which node heartbeated to the Resource manager at what time and how much memory is available with it and also how many applications are present in queue and how much they are requesting at what request priorities. If it has say sufficient memory to run 2 containers then they will get allocated (This allocation is quite complex ..I am assuming very simple "*" reuqest). So you may see few running 2, few running 1 where as few with 0 containers. I hope it clarifies your doubt. Thanks, Omkar Joshi *Hortonworks Inc.* <http://www.hortonworks.com> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Vandecreme, Antoine < antoine.vandecr...@nist.gov> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am working with Hadoop 2.0.5 (I plan to migrate to 2.1.0 soon). > When I am starting a Job, I notice that some nodes are not used or > partially used. > > For example, if my nodes can hold 2 containers, I notice that some nodes > are not running any or just 1 while others are running 2. > All my nodes are configured the same way. > > Is this an expected behavior (maybe in case others jobs are started) ? > Is there a configuration to change this behavior? > > Thanks, > Antoine > -- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Thank You.
