[jira] [Updated] (HADOOP-9211) HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS default setting fixes max heap size at 128m, disregards HADOOP_HEAPSIZE

["Gopal V (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9211?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Gopal V updated HADOOP-9211:
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    Attachment: hadoop-xmx.patch

I've been using the following patch locally to work around a similar problem.

Java takes the last -xmx opt it can find as the actual value, so moving the arg to the end of the opts seemed to help.
                
> HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS default setting fixes max heap size at 128m, disregards HADOOP_HEAPSIZE
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-9211
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-9211
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: conf
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.2-alpha
>            Reporter: Sarah Weissman
>         Attachments: hadoop-xmx.patch
>
>   Original Estimate: 1m
>  Remaining Estimate: 1m
>
> hadoop-env.sh as included in the 2.0.2alpha release tarball contains:
> export HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS="-Xmx128m $HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS"
> This overrides any heap settings in HADOOP_HEAPSIZE.

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