[YARN-3719] Improve Solaris support in YARN

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.7.0
• Component/s: build

Environment

Solaris x86, Solaris sparc

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Alan Burlison
• Created: 26/May/15 18:34
• Updated: 08/Jun/15 13:04

Description

At present the YARN native components aren't fully supported on Solaris primarily due to differences between Linux and Solaris. This top-level task will be used to group together both existing and new issues related to this work. A second goal is to improve YARN performance and functionality on Solaris wherever possible.

Issue Links

• is related to: MAPREDUCE-6391 util/Timer.cc completely misunderstands _POSIX_CPUTIME
• is related to: YARN-3066 Hadoop leaves orphaned tasks running after job is killed
• is related to: HADOOP-11985 Improve Solaris support in Hadoop
• is related to: HDFS-8478 Improve Solaris support in HDFS
• is related to: MAPREDUCE-6390 Improve Solaris support in Hadoop Map/Reduce

Sub-Tasks

• hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager's use of Linux Cgroups is non-portable: Open
• Use POSIX nftw(3) instead of fts(3): Resolved
• hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager needs cross-platform equivalents of Linux /sbin/tc: Open
• Migrate YARN native build to new CMake framework: Resolved
• Make hadoop-yarn-project Native code -Wall-clean: Resolved
• get_executable() assumes everything is Linux: Resolved