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[jira] Moved: (HADOOP-9) mapred.local.dir temp dir. space allocation limited by smallest area

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9?page=all ]

Doug Cutting moved NUTCH-181 to HADOOP-9:
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    Project: Hadoop  (was: Nutch)
        Key: HADOOP-9  (was: NUTCH-181)
    Version:     (was: 0.8-dev)

> mapred.local.dir  temp dir. space allocation limited by smallest area
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>
>          Key: HADOOP-9
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9
>      Project: Hadoop
>         Type: Bug
>   Components: indexer
>  Environment: all
>     Reporter: Paul Baclace

>
> When mapred.local.dir is used to specify multiple  temp dir. areas, space allocation limited by smallest area because the temp dir. selection algorithm is "round robin starting from a randomish point".   When round robin is used with approximately constant sized chunks, the smallest area runs out of space first, and this is a fatal error. 
> Workaround: only list local fs dirs in mapred.local.dir with similarly-sized available areas.
> I wrote a patch to JobConf (currenly being tested) which uses df to check available space (once a minute or less often) and then uses an efficient roulette selection to do allocation weighted by magnitude of available space. 

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