Details
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Bug
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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0.20.2
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None
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Reviewed
Description
We encountered a situation where in the same cluster, large jobs benefit from mapred.fairscheduler.assignmultiple, but small jobs with small numbers of mappers do not: the mappers all clump to fully occupy just a few nodes, which causes those nodes to saturate and bottleneck. The desired behavior is to spread the job across more nodes so that a relatively small job doesn't saturate any node in the cluster.
Testing has shown that setting mapred.fairscheduler.assignmultiple to false gives the desired behavior for small jobs, but is unnecessary for large jobs. However, since this is a cluster-wide setting, we can't properly tune.
It'd be nice if jobs can set a param similar to mapred.fairscheduler.assignmultiple on submission to better control the task distribution of a particular job.
