[HADOOP-167] reducing the number of Configuration & JobConf objects created

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.2.0
• Component/s: conf
• Assignee: Owen O'Malley
• Reporter: Owen O'Malley
• Created: 26/Apr/06 10:52
• Updated: 03/Aug/06 17:46
• Resolved: 29/Apr/06 01:41

Description

Currently, Configuration and JobConf objects are created many times during executing a job. In particular, the Task Tracker creates a lot of them. They both clutter up the logs and parse the xml config files over and over again.