[jira] Commented: (HADOOP-3285) map tasks with node local splits do not always read from local nodes

["Amar Kamat (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Amar Kamat commented on HADOOP-3285:
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The namenode (via {{Namenode.getBlockLocations()}}) returns different block location information than the one in {{split.getLocations()}}.  Note that {{split.getLocations()}} is used for task cache creation in JobInProgress while {{Namenode.getBlockLocations()}} is used by the DFS client for pulling the split before starting the actual map phase. One possible problem is 2027. We are investigating. 

> map tasks with node local splits do not always read from local nodes
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>                 Key: HADOOP-3285
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3285
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: mapred
>            Reporter: Runping Qi
>
> I ran a simple map/reduce job counting the number of records in the input data.
> The number of reducers was set to 1.
> I did not set the number of mappers. Thus by default, all splits except the last split of a file contain one dfs block (128MB in my case).
> The web gui indicated that 99% of map tasks were with local splits.
> Thus I expected that most of the dfs reads should have come from the local data nodes.
> However, when I examine the traffic of the ethernet interfaces, 
> I found about 50% traffic of each node were through the loopback interface and other 50% were through the ethernet card!
> Also,  the switch monitoring indicated that a lot of traffic went through the links and cross racks!
> This indicated that the data locality feature does not work as expected.
> To confirm that, I set the number of map tasks to a very high number so that it forced the split size down to about 27MB.
> The web gui indicated that 99% of map tasks were with local splits, as expected.
> The ethernet interface monitor showed that almost 100% traffic went through the loopback interface, as it should be. 
> I found about 50% traffic of each node were through the loopback interface and other 50% were through the ethernet card!
> Also,  the switch monitoring indicated that there were very little traffic through the links and cross racks.
> This implies that some corner cases are not handled properly.

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