Thanks a lot Christian :)
I had not meant by any mean last Friday to overload the cluster ... I did
it nonetheless.
Your page on how to 'keep an eye on it' will really be useful!
Cheers
Joseph


On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Leila Zia <[email protected]> wrote:

> This is really useful, Christian. Thanks for explaining and documenting it.
>
> Leila
>
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 6:14 AM, Christian Aistleitner <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> around running jobs on the Analytics cluster, I've sometime seen
>> people say in IRC: “Let's run this heavy job. I'll keep an eye on it”.
>>
>> But more often than not, this seems to have meant:
>> “Let's just run this heavy job and wait. If QChris joins IRC, let's
>> hope he doesn't ping us about having overloaded the cluster.”
>>
>> That's not nice^Wscalable ;-)
>>
>> So just in case someone is vague on how to “keep an eye on it”, I did
>> a short write-up at:
>>
>>   https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Analytics/Cluster/Hadoop/Load
>>
>> which details on detecting how the cluster is doing on a very high
>> level.
>> Especially, it allows you to detect if the cluster got stalled, and if
>> it did, it tells you what to do.
>>
>> Have fun,
>> Christian
>>
>> P.S.: The above URL has diagrams! Click the URL!
>>
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