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Raghu Angadi commented on HADOOP-3164:
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Not all OSes are so bad. Linux does not suffer from such a problem. Not sure
whether it is Java or Mac OS that is some how prohibiting read ahead for these
sequential reads.
So we could enable this on datanode as long as the buffer size is >= 64k. Of
course, Linux with smaller buffer sizes will also suffer.
> Use FileChannel.transferTo() when data is read from DataNode.
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>
> Key: HADOOP-3164
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3164
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: dfs
> Reporter: Raghu Angadi
> Assignee: Raghu Angadi
> Fix For: 0.18.0
>
> Attachments: HADOOP-3164.patch, HADOOP-3164.patch, HADOOP-3164.patch,
> HADOOP-3164.patch, HADOOP-3164.patch
>
>
> HADOOP-2312 talks about using FileChannel's
> [{{transferTo()}}|http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/channels/FileChannel.html#transferTo(long,%20long,%20java.nio.channels.WritableByteChannel)]
> and
> [{{transferFrom()}}|http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/nio/channels/FileChannel.html#transferFrom(java.nio.channels.ReadableByteChannel,%20long,%20long)]
> in DataNode.
> At the time DataNode neither used NIO sockets nor wrote large chunks of
> contiguous block data to socket. Hadoop 0.17 does both when data is seved to
> clients (and other datanodes). I am planning to try using transferTo() in the
> trunk. This might reduce DataNode's cpu by another 50% or more.
> Once HADOOP-1702 is committed, we can look into using transferFrom().
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