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Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli commented on YARN-1404:
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On top of what I said, want to say this: Containers being processes is a
fundamental assumption in all of YARN. If you want to change that assumption,
you better be sure of the requirements - it has far reaching repercussions -
both in terms of past/present code and future design - it's not just putting in
a flag here and another one there.
> Add support for unmanaged containers
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> Key: YARN-1404
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-1404
> Project: Hadoop YARN
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: nodemanager
> Affects Versions: 2.2.0
> Reporter: Alejandro Abdelnur
> Assignee: Alejandro Abdelnur
> Attachments: YARN-1404.patch
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> Currently a container allocation requires to start a container process with
> the corresponding NodeManager's node.
> For applications that need to use the allocated resources out of band from
> Yarn this means that a dummy container process must be started.
> Impala/Llama is an example of such application which is currently starting a
> 'sleep 10y' (10 years) process as the container process. And the resource
> capabilities are used out of by and the Impala process collocated in the
> node. The Impala process ensures the processing associated to that resources
> do not exceed the capabilities of the container. Also, if the container is
> lost/preempted/killed, Impala stops using the corresponding resources.
> In addition, in the case of Llama, the current requirement of having a
> container process, gets complicates when hard resource enforcement (memory
> -ContainersMonitor- or cpu -via cgroups-) is enabled because Impala/Llama
> request resources with CPU and memory independently of each other. Some
> requests are CPU only and others are memory only. Unmanaged containers solve
> this problem as there is no underlying process with zero CPU or zero memory.
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