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Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-910:
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> java heap size: 1024mb
Is a 1024MB heap required for the sort? Or have you also increased other
buffer sizes?
With default settings, we should run in the default heap size, which is
currently 200MB for task processes. (The default heap size for daemons is
currently 1000MB, but this patch only affects task processes.)
> Reduces can do merges for the on-disk map output files in parallel with their
> copying
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>
> Key: HADOOP-910
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-910
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: mapred
> Reporter: Devaraj Das
> Assignee: Amar Kamat
> Attachments: HADOOP-910-review.patch, HADOOP-910.patch
>
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> Proposal to extend the parallel in-memory-merge/copying, that is being done
> as part of HADOOP-830, to the on-disk files.
> Today, the Reduces dump the map output files to disk and the final merge
> happens only after all the map outputs have been collected. It might make
> sense to parallelize this part. That is, whenever a Reduce has collected
> io.sort.factor number of segments on disk, it initiates a merge of those and
> creates one big segment. If the rate of copying is faster than the merge, we
> can probably have multiple threads doing parallel merges of independent sets
> of io.sort.factor number of segments. If the rate of copying is not as fast
> as merge, we stand to gain a lot - at the end of copying of all the map
> outputs, we will be left with a small number of segments for the final merge
> (which hopefully will feed the reduce directly (via the RawKeyValueIterator)
> without having to hit the disk for writing additional output segments).
> If the disk bandwidth is higher than the network bandwidth, we have a good
> story, I guess, to do such a thing.
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