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dhruba borthakur commented on HADOOP-6082: ------------------------------------------ Another option is to expose an APi from the JobTracker that retrieves the status of all known slave nodes and the load (#running maps, #running reduces) on that slave node. (This will be equivalent to bin/hadoop dfsadmin -report command for HDFS). > Elegant decommission of lighty loaded tasktrackers from a map-reduce cluster > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-6082 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6082 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: mapred > Reporter: dhruba borthakur > Assignee: Namit Jain > > There is a need to elegantly move some machines from one map-reduce cluster > to another. This JIRA is to discuss how to find lightly loaded tasktrackers > that are candidates for decommissioning and then to elegantly decommission > them by waiting for existing tasks to finish. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.