yarn is not honouring yarn.nodemanager.resource.cpu-vcores

Question

I am using Hadoop-2.4.0 and my system configs are 24 cores, 96 GB RAM.

I am using following configs

mapreduce.map.cpu.vcores=1
yarn.nodemanager.resource.cpu-vcores=10
yarn.scheduler.minimum-allocation-vcores=1
yarn.scheduler.maximum-allocation-vcores=4
yarn.app.mapreduce.am.resource.cpu-vcores=1

yarn.nodemanager.resource.memory-mb=88064
mapreduce.map.memory.mb=3072
mapreduce.map.java.opts=-Xmx2048m

Capacity Scheduler configs

queue.default.capacity=50
queue.default.maximum_capacity=100
yarn.scheduler.capacity.root.default.user-limit-factor=2

With above configs, I expect yarn won't launch more than 10 mappers per node, but It is launching 28 mappers per node. Am I doing something wrong??

Deland

Answer 1

YARN is running more containers than allocated cores because by default DefaultResourceCalculator is used. It considers only memory.

public int computeAvailableContainers(Resource available, Resource required) {
// Only consider memory
return available.getMemory() / required.getMemory();
  }

Use DominantResourceCalculator, It uses both cpu and memory.

Set below config in capacity-scheduler.xml

yarn.scheduler.capacity.resource-calculator=org.apache.hadoop.yarn.util.resource.DominantResourceCalculator

More about DominantResourceCalculator

Deland

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@Tuckerbag I apologize for incomplete answer.I asked this question and there was no answer for next 4-5 hour and it had only 5 view. Meanwhile I also debugged the code and found the answer. To help others I quickly added required configs, I had to run more experiments around it. – Deland

I spent a few hours trying to figure out why YARN was telling me there are a negative number of vcores available on my nodes! – Vassaux

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