[HDFS-383] Modify datanode configs to specify minimum JVM heapsize

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Robert Chansler
• Created: 28/Dec/07 23:07
• Updated: 17/Jul/14 19:23
• Resolved: 17/Jul/14 19:23

Description

>Y! 1524346

Currently the Hadoop DataNodes are running with the option -Xmx1000m. They
should and/or be running with the option -Xms1000m (if 1000m is correct; it
seems high?)

This turns out to be a sticky request. The place where Hadoop DFS is getting
the definition of how to define that 1000m is the hadoop-env file. Read the
code from bin/hadoop, which is used to start all hadoop processes:

) JAVA_HEAP_MAX=-Xmx1000m
)
) # check envvars which might override default args
) if [ "$HADOOP_HEAPSIZE" != "" ]; then
) #echo "run with heapsize $HADOOP_HEAPSIZE"
) JAVA_HEAP_MAX="-Xmx""$HADOOP_HEAPSIZE""m"
) #echo $JAVA_HEAP_MAX
) fi

And here's the entry from hadoop-env.sh:
) # The maximum amount of heap to use, in MB. Default is 1000.
) export HADOOP_HEAPSIZE=1000

The problem is that I believe we want to specify -Xms for datanodes ONLY. But
the same script is used to start datanodes, tasktrackers, etc. This isn't
trivially a matter of distributing different config files, the options provided
are coded into the bin/hadoop executable. So this is an enhancement request.

Issue Links

• is related to: HADOOP-9902 Shell script rewrite