[jira] [Updated] (MAPREDUCE-6003) Resource Estimator suggests huge map output in some cases

["Chengbing Liu (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Chengbing Liu updated MAPREDUCE-6003:
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    Assignee: Chengbing Liu
      Status: Patch Available  (was: Open)

> Resource Estimator suggests huge map output in some cases
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>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-6003
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-6003
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: jobtracker
>    Affects Versions: 1.2.1
>            Reporter: Chengbing Liu
>            Assignee: Chengbing Liu
>
> In some cases, ResourceEstimator can return way too large map output estimation. This happens when input size is not correctly calculated.
> A typical case is when joining two Hive tables (one in HDFS and the other in HBase). The maps that process the HBase table finish first, which has a 0 length of inputs due to its TableInputFormat. Then for a map that processes HDFS table, the estimated output size is very large because of the wrong input size, causing the map task not possible to be assigned.
> There are two possible solutions to this problem:
> (1) Make input size correct for each case, e.g. HBase, etc.
> (2) Use another algorithm to estimate the map output, or at least make it closer to reality.
> I prefer the second way, since the first would require all possibilities to be taken care of. It is not easy for some inputs such as URIs.
> In my opinion, we could make a second estimation which is independent of the input size:
> estimationB = (completedMapOutputSize / completedMaps) * totalMaps * 10
> Here, multiplying by 10 makes the estimation more conservative, so that it will be less likely to assign it to some where not big enough.
> The former estimation goes like this:
> estimationA = (inputSize * completedMapOutputSize * 2.0) / completedMapInputSize
> My suggestion is to take minimum of the two estimations:
> estimation = min(estimationA, estimationB)



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