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Raghu Angadi commented on HADOOP-1338: -------------------------------------- I think on a LAN, overhead of a establishing a TCP connection usually gets overrated. Slow start is a real problem. Just like how this could be disabled in Hadoop, Jetty might have an option. I would think just disabling slow-start would give more benefit than keep-alive without disabling slow-start. In any case, already existing benchmarks might be able to show any benefit this gives. Given possible side affects of keep-alive as Devaraj mentioned, improvement might need to be reasonably noticeable. > Improve the shuffle phase by using the "connection: keep-alive" and doing > batch transfers of files > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-1338 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1338 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: mapred > Reporter: Devaraj Das > > We should do transfers of map outputs at the granularity of > *total-bytes-transferred* rather than the current way of transferring a > single file and then closing the connection to the server. A single > TaskTracker might have a couple of map output files for a given reduce, and > we should transfer multiple of them (upto a certain total size) in a single > connection to the TaskTracker. Using HTTP-1.1's keep-alive connection would > help since it would keep the connection open for more than one file transfer. > We should limit the transfers to a certain size so that we don't hold up a > jetty thread indefinitely (and cause timeouts for other clients). > Overall, this should give us improved performance. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.