[HADOOP-3694] if MiniDFS startup time could be improved, testing time would be reduced

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.19.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.19.0
• Component/s: test
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Doug Cutting
• Reporter: Steve Loughran
• Created: 04/Jul/08 10:52
• Updated: 29/Apr/10 08:07
• Resolved: 31/Jul/08 18:18

Description

Its taking me 140 minutes to run a test build; looking into the test results its the 20s startup delay of every MiniDFS cluster that is slowing things down. If we could find out why it is taking so long and cut it down, every test case that relied on a cluster would be speeded up.