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Suresh Srinivas commented on HDFS-1114:
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+1 for the patch.

> Reducing NameNode memory usage by an alternate hash table
> ---------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-1114
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1114
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: name-node
>            Reporter: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
>            Assignee: Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE
>         Attachments: GSet20100525.pdf, gset20100608.pdf, 
> h1114_20100607.patch, h1114_20100614b.patch, h1114_20100615.patch, 
> h1114_20100616b.patch, h1114_20100617.patch, h1114_20100617b.patch
>
>
> NameNode uses a java.util.HashMap to store BlockInfo objects.  When there are 
> many blocks in HDFS, this map uses a lot of memory in the NameNode.  We may 
> optimize the memory usage by a light weight hash table implementation.

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