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Gera Shegalov commented on MAPREDUCE-5785:
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Hi [~kasha], 

Sorry, I have not had a chance to look at your changes earlier.
In my patch I was setting DEFAULT_MAPRED_TASK_JAVA_OPTS to "" to make sure that 
we don't get null. In the latest patch it actually happens and is not caught 
because the tests are weakened by checking only for containment of command 
fragments instead of checking the whole command.


> Derive heap size or mapreduce.*.memory.mb automatically
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 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
>             Fix For: 3.0.0
>
>         Attachments: MAPREDUCE-5785.v01.patch, MAPREDUCE-5785.v02.patch, 
> MAPREDUCE-5785.v03.patch, mr-5785-4.patch, mr-5785-5.patch, mr-5785-6.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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