On May 28, 2010, at 11:43 AM, Todd Lipcon wrote: > Hi Allen, > > Recent versions of the fair scheduler have configurations for "delay > scheduling" - essentially, it will wait for a few seconds when a slot opens > up to try to find a local task before assigning a non-local one. This is > specifically to avoid the issue you're describing. > > Check out Matei's Eurosys 2010 paper here: > > http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~matei/papers/2010/eurosys_delay_scheduling.pdf > > I believe this got lumped in with MAPREDUCE-706.
Thanks. I'll take a look at this and see how applicable this is to Capacity.
