On Jan 31, 2013, at 10:19 AM, "Parker, Matthew - IS" <[email protected]> wrote:
> TWIMC: > > I'm new to Accumulo and I've been trying to come up with a good architecture > for a 20 node cluster. I have been running a map/reduce program, and it > encounters issues when it comes to running the Accumulo section of the code. > Once the job's completion rate exceeds 93, it starts dropping 10's of tasks > during the process, because they eventually timeout. The completion rate > drops back down, but it the job eventually finishes. I have a suspicion it's > due to the way I have the system configured and I wanted to get some feedback > as to what's the generally preferred architecture when installing Accumulo? Whether tasks timeout can be due to the data and the reduce logic, in addition to the configuration. Are things timing out in the reduce phase? Also, do you notice that it's the same tasktrackers that experience timeouts? Finally, are you doing MapReduce from HDFS to HDFS? Or are you reading from or writing to Accumulo tables? You alluded to an Accumulo section of your code. Are you reading/writing to/from HFDS but doing scans/lookups/inserts to Accumulo from your mappers or reducers? > Since you have the choice of installing hdfs, map/reduce, and tablet servers > on any three, the general guideline is to install two per machine (data node > and table server, or data nodeand map/reduce) as per the Hardware section in > the Administration documentation. > > http://accumulo.apache.org/1.4/user_manual/Administration.html#Hardware > > Does that mean you have one large group of data nodes that's installed on the > majority of the cluster, or are they somehow split into two groups such that > map/reduce & hdfs runs on one set of nodes, and Accumulo tablet servers and > hdfs uses another? You can certainly just use one large group of HDFS data nodes and mapreduce and accumulo will work fine. Also - depending on your hardware, you can run all three processes on each node. You just want to make sure each process has enough ram/cpu. If you want to keep Accumulo IO somewhat isolated from MapReduce you can control the location of HDFS block replicas to a certain degree to achieve more independence of failures and IO. Of course writing to or reading from Accumulo in a MapReduce will still absorb resources from the Accumulo side. > I was wondering whether people would comment on what a working configuration > might look like? > > TIA, > > Matt > > > This e-mail and any files transmitted with it may be proprietary and are > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are > addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error please notify the > sender. Please note that any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are > solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Exelis > Inc. The recipient should check this e-mail and any attachments for the > presence of viruses. Exelis Inc. accepts no liability for any damage caused > by any virus transmitted by this e-mail.
