[jira] Commented: (HADOOP-1433) Add job priority

["Doug Cutting (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-1433:
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The answer we've come to in the past is that an elaborate scheduler is beyond the immediate scope of Hadoop.  So I don't think anyone's currently working on this, although you are free to if you like.

Some workarounds that have been proposed are:

1. Run two sets of MapReduce daemons on the same cluster, one niced, the other not.  Since HADOOP-468, Hadoop has supporting setting HADOOP_NICENESS in conf/hadoop-env.sh.  Then high-priority, short-running jobs may be submitted to the un-niced cluster while low-priority, long-running jobs may be submitted to the niced cluster.  I've heard this works well, that when a high-priority job is submitted, the low-priority job slows nearly to a halt, giving nearly all the resources to the high-priority jobs.

2. Use HOD (HADOOP-719) or Amazon EC2 to dynamically allocate MapReduce clusters per job or job-sequence.


> Add job priority
> ----------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-1433
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1433
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: mapred
>            Reporter: Johan Oskarsson
>            Priority: Minor
>
> As more and more developers start using our cluster we run into problems where big low priority jobs block smaller high priority ones.
> A simple way of specifying the job priority in the JobConf and perhaps even change it during runtime via the jobtracker web ui would help a lot.

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