I found the code still exists in this code base for the old mapred interfaces
src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/mapred/TableInputFormatBase.java
I'll adapt it for my needs. Thanks!
Avery
On Apr 9, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Jean-Daniel Cryans wrote:
> It's weird, I thought we already did something like that and it seems
> that the old TableInputFormatBase does it but not the new one. From
> it's javadoc:
>
> * Splits are created in number equal to the smallest between numSplits and
> * the number of {@link HRegion}s in the table. If the number of splits is
> * smaller than the number of {@link HRegion}s then splits are spanned across
> * multiple {@link HRegion}s and are grouped the most evenly possible. In the
> * case splits are uneven the bigger splits are placed first in the
> * {@link InputSplit} array.
>
> J-D
>
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote:
>> Yes, you could make a different Splitter. Would be nice in the
>> splitter if you could keep the locality where we have the Map task
>> running on the TaskTracker that is adjacent to the hosting
>> RegionServer. That shouldn't be hard. Study the current splitter and
>> see how it juggles locations.
>>
>> Can you put us in contact w/ the person running the cluster (offline
>> if you prefer)? 150k sounds like regions need to be bigger.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> St.Ack
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Avery Ching <ach...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>>> The number of regions is pretty insane, but not under my control
>>> unfortunately. The workaround I suggested is to write another InputFormat
>>> and InputSplit such that each InputSplit is responsible for a configurable
>>> number of regions. For example, if i have 100k regions and I configure
>>> each InputSplit to handle 1k regions, then I'll only have 100 map tasks.
>>> Just was wondering if anyone else faced these issues.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your quick response on a Saturday morning =),
>>>
>>> Avery
>>>
>>> On Apr 9, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Jean-Daniel Cryans wrote:
>>>
>>>> You cannot have more mappers than you have regions, but you can have
>>>> less. Try going that way.
>>>>
>>>> Also 149,624 regions is insane, is that really the case? I don't think
>>>> i've ever seen such a large deploy and it's probably bound to hit some
>>>> issues...
>>>>
>>>> J-D
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 9:15 AM, Avery Ching <ach...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> First off, I'd like to say thanks to the developers for HBase, it's been
>>>>> fun to work with.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been using TableInputFormat to run a Map-Reduce job and ran into an
>>>>> issue.
>>>>>
>>>>> Exception in thread "main" org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException:
>>>>> java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: The number of tasks for this
>>>>> job 149624 exceeds the configured limit 100000
>>>>>
>>>>> The table i'm accessing has 149624 regions, however my Hadoop instance
>>>>> won't allow me to start a job with that many map tasks. After briefly
>>>>> looking at the TableInputFormatBase code, it appears that since
>>>>> TableSplit only knows about a single region, my job will be forced into
>>>>> having mappers == # of regions. Since the Hadoop instance I'm using is
>>>>> shared, I'm concerned that even if configured limit was raised, having
>>>>> Jobs with so many mappers would eventually cause havoc to the job tracker.
>>>>>
>>>>> Given that I have no control over the number of regions in the table
>>>>> (maintained by someone else), is the only solution to implement another
>>>>> input format (i.e. MultiRegionTableFormat) that allows InputSplits to
>>>>> have more than one region? I don't mind doing it, but didn't want to
>>>>> write it if another solution already exists.
>>>>>
>>>>> Apologies if this issue has been raised before, but a quick search didn't
>>>>> turn anything up for me.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Avery
>>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
