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Harsh J commented on YARN-238: ------------------------------ Is there also need for this to be a "strict" need or is it good to be flexible (i.e. non guaranteeing) like other resource requests (we do a good locality job to not have this concern very frequently, but still)? > ClientRMProtocol needs to allow the specification of a ResourceRequest so > that the Application Master's Container can be placed on the specified host > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: YARN-238 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-238 > Project: Hadoop YARN > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: resourcemanager > Reporter: Vinayak Borkar > > Currently a client is able to specify only resource requirements in terms of > amount of memory required while launching an ApplicationMaster. There needs > to be a way to ask for resources using a ResourceRequest so that a host name > could be specified in addition to the amount of memory required. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira