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Steve Loughran commented on YARN-1404:
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# I'd be inclined to treat this as a special case of YARN-1040, the "0 process
state". If both can be addressed in the same code path, that's one less code
path to look after.
# It's dangerously easy to leak containers here; I know llama keeps an eye on
things, but I worry about other people's code -though admittedly, any
long-lived command line app "yes" could do the same.
For the multi-process (and that includes processes=0), we really do need some
kind of lease renewal option to stop containers being retained forever. It
would become the job of the AM to do the renewal
> Add support for unmanaged containers
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>
> Key: YARN-1404
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-1404
> Project: Hadoop YARN
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: nodemanager
> Affects Versions: 2.2.0
> Reporter: Alejandro Abdelnur
> Assignee: Alejandro Abdelnur
> Attachments: YARN-1404.patch
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> Currently a container allocation requires to start a container process with
> the corresponding NodeManager's node.
> For applications that need to use the allocated resources out of band from
> Yarn this means that a dummy container process must be started.
> Impala/Llama is an example of such application which is currently starting a
> 'sleep 10y' (10 years) process as the container process. And the resource
> capabilities are used out of by and the Impala process collocated in the
> node. The Impala process ensures the processing associated to that resources
> do not exceed the capabilities of the container. Also, if the container is
> lost/preempted/killed, Impala stops using the corresponding resources.
> In addition, in the case of Llama, the current requirement of having a
> container process, gets complicates when hard resource enforcement (memory
> -ContainersMonitor- or cpu -via cgroups-) is enabled because Impala/Llama
> request resources with CPU and memory independently of each other. Some
> requests are CPU only and others are memory only. Unmanaged containers solve
> this problem as there is no underlying process with zero CPU or zero memory.
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