Logging garbage collection metrics into yarn nodemanager application log directory for mappers in Hadoop

[Gopi Krishnan <go...@gmail.com>]

What is the correct way to log garbage collection metrics into the same
location where yarn syslogs/stderr and stdout logs are located for mappers
in Hadoop Yarn. Any insights wold be helpful:

Here are the setting I tried in mapred-site.xml, but no gc logs were
available in the location ${yarn.nodemanager.log-dirs}/application_${appid}
and I did not find any logs pointing out issues for the same:

<property> <name>mapreduce.map.java.opts</name>
<value>-Xloggc:${yarn.nodemanager.log-dirs}/application_${appid}/gc-@taskid@.log
-verbose:gc -XX:+PrintGC -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps
-XX:+PrintCommandLineFlags</value> </property>