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  1. Hadoop Map/Reduce
  2. MAPREDUCE-4752

Reduce MR AM memory usage through String Interning

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • None
    • 2.0.3-alpha, 0.23.5
    • mrv2
    • None

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      There are a lot of strings that are duplicates of one another in the AM. This comes from all of the PB events the come across the wire and also tasks heart-beating in through the umbilical. There are even several duplicates from Configuration. By "interning" all of these strings on the Heap I have been able to reduce the resting memory usage of the AM to be about 5KB per task attempt. With about half of this coming from counters. This results in a 5MB heap for a typical 1000 task job, or a 500MB heap for a 100,000 task attempt job. I think I could cut the size of the counters in half by completely rewriting how counters work in the AM and History Server, but I don't think it is worth it at this point.

      I am still investigating what the memory usage of the AM is like when running very large jobs, and I will probably have a follow-up JIRA for reducing that memory usage as well.

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