Thanks, Erzsebet and Markus. Tuning the number of map tasks can be a
reasonal solution here, and I'll try that.
As Sqoop 1 is a MapReduce job, I think it's hard to have both (1) many
small queries and (2) limited concurrent executing queries.

-Wei

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Erzsebet Szilagyi <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Wei,
> Markus (in CC) offered the following explanation:
>
> "
> The Sqoop1 default is 4 map tasks.  When working with customers I usually
> start with 1 and double the number of map tasks (e.g. 1, 2, 4, 8) until
> finding a performance sweet spot while keeping in mind the potential rdbms
> impact.
>
> Estimating the real rdbms impact is often challenging for some of the
> following reasons:
> 1. DBAs are often not present
> 2. Jobs are often reviewed in isolation (excluding other simultaneous
> Sqoop or non-sqoop workloads)
> 3. Tests are often performed against smaller data volumes and/or virtual
> resources than what will be in production (includes rdbms, network and had
> pop cluster)
> 4. There is not a uniform way to monitor/analyze impact across rdbms
> vendors.
> 4.1. I have not really tried to review Sqoop console debug from a dB
> impact context, perhaps it could be used.
> 5. Once deployed production job volumes often change
>
> Thanks, Markus
> "
>
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Wei Yan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Would like to check whether Sqoop supports this type of ingestion:
>> consider we have records with range [1,12], and we have 3 mappers. So in
>> default, the 3 mappers will be assigned [1,4], [5, 8], [9, 12].
>>
>> Not sure whether we can split the range to smaller one, like, [1], [2],
>> [3], ..., [12]. But still using 3 mappers instead of 12 mappers. We want
>> this feature because: (1) if configured smaller mapper number, each mapper
>> will be assigned a larger range and take much longer time to finish, and
>> the infra may kill long running query; (2) But if we configured a larger
>> mapper number, each mapper has a smaller range, but meanwhile we generates
>> lots of network traffic to the database, which will also be bad. One good
>> way we want is: still 12 ranges, but 3 mappers, and at most 3 concurrent
>> connections at most.
>>
>> Appreciate any help here.
>>
>> -Wei
>>
>
>
>
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> Erzsebet Szilagyi
> Software Engineer
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