unused and misleading configuration in hadoop-init
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Key: HADOOP-4585
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4585
Project: Hadoop Core
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: contrib/ec2
Affects Versions: 0.18.1
Reporter: Karl Anderson
Priority: Minor
src/contrib/ec2/bin/image/hadoop-init is appended to rc.local on all
ec2 cluster boxes. This shell script generates the hadoop-site.xml
configuration file. It starts with some default settings, which are
used to populate the file. These defaults are then overwritten by the
user data (from hadoop-ec2-env.sh) passed to the EC2 instance by
launch-hadoop-master and launch-hadoop-slaves.
This isn't a bug; setting variables in hadoop-ec2-env.sh does the
right thing. However, it's dead and misleading code (well, it misled
me) and running a test Hadoop job to figure out what's going on takes
a little effort.
Suggested change to hadoop-init:
Remove these lines:
# set defaults
MAX_TASKS=3
[ "$INSTANCE_TYPE" == "m1.large" ] && MAX_TASKS=6
[ "$INSTANCE_TYPE" == "m1.xlarge" ] && MAX_TASKS=12
MAX_MAP_TASKS=$MAX_TASKS
MAX_REDUCE_TASKS=$MAX_TASKS
Add a comment before the lines which access the user data:
# get user data passed in by the ec2 instance launch
wget -q -O - http://169.254.169.254/latest/user-data | tr ',' '\n' >
/tmp/user-data
source /tmp/user-data
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