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Gera Shegalov updated MAPREDUCE-5785:
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    Description: 
Currently users have to set 2 memory-related configs per Job / per task type.  
One first chooses some container size map reduce.\*.memory.mb and then a 
corresponding maximum Java heap size Xmx < map reduce.\*.memory.mb. This makes 
sure that the JVM's C-heap (native memory + Java heap) does not exceed this 
mapreduce.*.memory.mb. If one forgets to tune Xmx, MR-AM might be 
- allocating big containers whereas the JVM will only use the default -Xmx200m.
- allocating small containers that will OOM because Xmx is too high.

With this JIRA, we propose to set Xmx automatically based on an empirical ratio 
that can be adjusted. Xmx is not changed automatically if provided by the user.


  was:
Currently users have to set 2 memory-related configs per Job / per task type.  
One first chooses some container size mapreduce.*.memory.mb and then a 
corresponding maximum Java heap size Xmx < mapreduce.*.memory.mb. This makes 
sure that the JVM's C-heap (native memory + Java heap) does not exceed this 
mapreduce.*.memory.mb. If one forgets to tune Xmx, MR-AM might be 
- allocating big containers whereas the JVM will only use the default -Xmx200m.
- allocating small containers that will OOM because Xmx is too high.

With this JIRA, we propose to set Xmx automatically based on an empirical ratio 
that can be adjusted. Xmx is not changed automatically if provided by the user.



> Derive task attempt JVM max heap size automatically from mapreduce.*.memory.mb
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>
>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-5785
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-5785
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: mr-am, task
>            Reporter: Gera Shegalov
>            Assignee: Gera Shegalov
>         Attachments: MAPREDUCE-5785.v01.patch
>
>
> Currently users have to set 2 memory-related configs per Job / per task type. 
>  One first chooses some container size map reduce.\*.memory.mb and then a 
> corresponding maximum Java heap size Xmx < map reduce.\*.memory.mb. This 
> makes sure that the JVM's C-heap (native memory + Java heap) does not exceed 
> this mapreduce.*.memory.mb. If one forgets to tune Xmx, MR-AM might be 
> - allocating big containers whereas the JVM will only use the default 
> -Xmx200m.
> - allocating small containers that will OOM because Xmx is too high.
> With this JIRA, we propose to set Xmx automatically based on an empirical 
> ratio that can be adjusted. Xmx is not changed automatically if provided by 
> the user.



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