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Ayush Saxena resolved HADOOP-17531. ----------------------------------- Fix Version/s: 3.3.1 Hadoop Flags: Reviewed Release Note: Added a -useiterator option in distcp which uses listStatusIterator for building the listing. Primarily to reduce memory usage at client for building listing. Resolution: Fixed > DistCp: Reduce memory usage on copying huge directories > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-17531 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-17531 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Ayush Saxena > Assignee: Ayush Saxena > Priority: Critical > Labels: pull-request-available > Fix For: 3.3.1, 3.4.0 > > Attachments: MoveToStackIterator.patch, gc-NewD-512M-3.8ML.log > > Time Spent: 10h 10m > Remaining Estimate: 0h > > Presently distCp, uses the producer-consumer kind of setup while building the > listing, the input queue and output queue are both unbounded, thus the > listStatus grows quite huge. > Rel Code Part : > https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/SimpleCopyListing.java#L635 > This goes on bredth-first traversal kind of stuff(uses queue instead of > earlier stack), so if you have files at lower depth, it will like open up the > entire tree and the start processing.... -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: common-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: common-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org