[jira] [Commented] (MAPREDUCE-2572) Throttle the deletion of data from the distributed cache

["Todd Lipcon (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Todd Lipcon commented on MAPREDUCE-2572:
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This should be against trunk, right?

> Throttle the deletion of data from the distributed cache
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>
>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-2572
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2572
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: distributed-cache
>    Affects Versions: 0.20.205.0
>            Reporter: Robert Joseph Evans
>            Assignee: Robert Joseph Evans
>         Attachments: THROTTLING-security-v1.patch
>
>
> When deleting entries from the distributed cache we do so in a background thread.  Once the size limit of the distributed cache is reached all unused entries are deleted.  MAPREDUCE-2494 changes this so that entries are deleted in LRU order until the usage falls below a given threshold.  In either of these cases we are periodically flooding a disk with delete requests which can slow down all IO operations to a drive.  It would be better to be able to throttle this deletion so that it is spread out over a longer period of time.  This jira is to add in this throttling.
> On investigating it seems much simpler to backport MPAREDUCE-2494 to 20S before implementing this change rather then try to implement it without LRU deletion, because LRU goes a long way towards reducing the load on the disk anyways.

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