[MAPREDUCE-6727] Add a configuration to limit the input size of the MapReduce job.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.8.0
• Component/s: job submission
• Assignee: Zhihai Xu
• Reporter: Zhihai Xu
• Created: 26/Jun/16 06:35
• Updated: 26/Jun/16 09:24

Description

Add a configuration to limit the input size of the MapReduce job. It will be useful for Hadoop admin to save Hadoop cluster resource by preventing users from submitting bad mapreduce jobs or bad hive queries. The default behavior is no limit.