Github user nickwallen commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/1157#discussion_r209650724
--- Diff: metron-interface/metron-rest/README.md ---
@@ -223,6 +223,9 @@ REST will supply the script with raw pcap data through
standard in and expects P
Pcap query jobs can be configured for submission to a YARN queue. This
setting is exposed as the Spring property `pcap.yarn.queue`. If configured,
the REST application will set the `mapreduce.job.queuename` Hadoop property to
that value.
+Pcap query jobs have a finalization routine that writes their results out
to HDFS in pages. There is a threadpool used for this finalization that can be
configured to use a specified number of threads.
+This setting is exposed as the Spring property
`pcap.finalizer.threadpool.size`
--- End diff --
Do you have any advice on when a user should increase/decrease this value?
Are there errors I might see that would be resolved by increasing/decreasing
this value?
If you don't have a good understanding of this, then we don't need to worry
about it.
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