[MAPREDUCE-3936] Clients should not enforce counter limits

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: mrv1
• Labels: BB2015-05-TBR
• Target Version/s: 2.0.3-alpha, 1.3.0
• Assignee: Thomas White
• Reporter: Thomas White
• Created: 28/Feb/12 18:57
• Updated: 11/May/15 09:36
• Resolved: 11/May/15 09:36

Description

The code for enforcing counter limits (from MAPREDUCE-1943) creates a static JobConf instance to load the limits, which may throw an exception if the client limit is set to be lower than the limit on the cluster (perhaps because the cluster limit was raised from the default).