[FLINK-6469] Configure Memory Sizes with units

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.0
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: vinoyang
• Reporter: Stephan Ewen
• Created: 06/May/17 13:27
• Updated: 28/Feb/19 13:20
• Resolved: 05/Jul/18 13:57

Description

Currently, memory sizes are configured by pure numbers, the interpretation is different from configuration parameter to parameter.

For example, heap sizes are configured in megabytes, network buffer memory is configured in bytes, alignment thresholds are configured in bytes.

I propose to configure all memory parameters the same way, with units similar to time. The JVM itself configured heap size similarly: Xmx5g or Xmx2000m.

10000  -> bytes
10 kb
64 mb
1 gb
...

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5448

Sub-Tasks

• Add a utility to parse memory sizes with units: Closed