Thanks very much Harsh. It seems then that slots are not defined in terms of actual machine resource capacities in terms of cpu, memory, disk and network bandwidth.
-bikash On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Harsh J <[email protected]> wrote: > Please see this archived thread for a very similar question on what > tasks really are: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-general/201011.mbox/%[email protected]%3E > > Right now, they're just a cap number for parallelization, > hand-configured and irrespective of the machine's capabilities. > However, a Scheduler may take machine's states into account while > assigning tasks to one. > > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:22 PM, bikash sharma <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > How is task slot in Hadoop defined with respect to scheduling a > map/reduce > > task on such slots available on TaskTrackers? > > > > Thanks, > > Bikash > > > > > > -- > Harsh J > www.harshj.com >
