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Raghu Angadi commented on HADOOP-3164:
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bq. Also, increasing the default buffer size can have a significant impact on 
memory usage, since some applications open lots of streams, and each open 
stream frequently has several buffers. When we find that a particular operation 
benefits from a larger buffer, it is usually best to increase just its buffer 
size rather than the default buffer size for all Hadoop i/o streams.

Yes. I was not planning to increase default buffer size in this patch. 

> 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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