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  2. <body>
  3. <table border="1">
  4. <tr>
  5. <td>name</td><td>value</td><td>description</td>
  6. </tr>
  7. <tr>
  8. <td><a name="hadoop.tmp.dir">hadoop.tmp.dir</a></td><td>/tmp/hadoop-${user.name}</td><td>A base for other temporary directories.</td>
  9. </tr>
  10. <tr>
  11. <td><a name="hadoop.native.lib">hadoop.native.lib</a></td><td>true</td><td>Should native hadoop libraries, if present, be used.</td>
  12. </tr>
  13. <tr>
  14. <td><a name="hadoop.http.filter.initializers">hadoop.http.filter.initializers</a></td><td></td><td>A comma separated list of class names. Each class in the list
  15. must extend org.apache.hadoop.http.FilterInitializer. The corresponding
  16. Filter will be initialized. Then, the Filter will be applied to all user
  17. facing jsp and servlet web pages. The ordering of the list defines the
  18. ordering of the filters.</td>
  19. </tr>
  20. <tr>
  21. <td><a name="hadoop.logfile.size">hadoop.logfile.size</a></td><td>10000000</td><td>The max size of each log file</td>
  22. </tr>
  23. <tr>
  24. <td><a name="hadoop.logfile.count">hadoop.logfile.count</a></td><td>10</td><td>The max number of log files</td>
  25. </tr>
  26. <tr>
  27. <td><a name="hadoop.job.history.location">hadoop.job.history.location</a></td><td></td><td> If job tracker is static the history files are stored
  28. in this single well known place. If No value is set here, by default,
  29. it is in the local file system at ${hadoop.log.dir}/history.
  30. </td>
  31. </tr>
  32. <tr>
  33. <td><a name="hadoop.job.history.user.location">hadoop.job.history.user.location</a></td><td></td><td> User can specify a location to store the history files of
  34. a particular job. If nothing is specified, the logs are stored in
  35. output directory. The files are stored in "_logs/history/" in the directory.
  36. User can stop logging by giving the value "none".
  37. </td>
  38. </tr>
  39. <tr>
  40. <td><a name="dfs.namenode.logging.level">dfs.namenode.logging.level</a></td><td>info</td><td>The logging level for dfs namenode. Other values are "dir"(trac
  41. e namespace mutations), "block"(trace block under/over replications and block
  42. creations/deletions), or "all".</td>
  43. </tr>
  44. <tr>
  45. <td><a name="io.sort.factor">io.sort.factor</a></td><td>10</td><td>The number of streams to merge at once while sorting
  46. files. This determines the number of open file handles.</td>
  47. </tr>
  48. <tr>
  49. <td><a name="io.sort.mb">io.sort.mb</a></td><td>100</td><td>The total amount of buffer memory to use while sorting
  50. files, in megabytes. By default, gives each merge stream 1MB, which
  51. should minimize seeks.</td>
  52. </tr>
  53. <tr>
  54. <td><a name="io.sort.record.percent">io.sort.record.percent</a></td><td>0.05</td><td>The percentage of io.sort.mb dedicated to tracking record
  55. boundaries. Let this value be r, io.sort.mb be x. The maximum number
  56. of records collected before the collection thread must block is equal
  57. to (r * x) / 4</td>
  58. </tr>
  59. <tr>
  60. <td><a name="io.sort.spill.percent">io.sort.spill.percent</a></td><td>0.80</td><td>The soft limit in either the buffer or record collection
  61. buffers. Once reached, a thread will begin to spill the contents to disk
  62. in the background. Note that this does not imply any chunking of data to
  63. the spill. A value less than 0.5 is not recommended.</td>
  64. </tr>
  65. <tr>
  66. <td><a name="io.file.buffer.size">io.file.buffer.size</a></td><td>4096</td><td>The size of buffer for use in sequence files.
  67. The size of this buffer should probably be a multiple of hardware
  68. page size (4096 on Intel x86), and it determines how much data is
  69. buffered during read and write operations.</td>
  70. </tr>
  71. <tr>
  72. <td><a name="io.bytes.per.checksum">io.bytes.per.checksum</a></td><td>512</td><td>The number of bytes per checksum. Must not be larger than
  73. io.file.buffer.size.</td>
  74. </tr>
  75. <tr>
  76. <td><a name="io.skip.checksum.errors">io.skip.checksum.errors</a></td><td>false</td><td>If true, when a checksum error is encountered while
  77. reading a sequence file, entries are skipped, instead of throwing an
  78. exception.</td>
  79. </tr>
  80. <tr>
  81. <td><a name="io.map.index.skip">io.map.index.skip</a></td><td>0</td><td>Number of index entries to skip between each entry.
  82. Zero by default. Setting this to values larger than zero can
  83. facilitate opening large map files using less memory.</td>
  84. </tr>
  85. <tr>
  86. <td><a name="io.compression.codecs">io.compression.codecs</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.BZip2Codec</td><td>A list of the compression codec classes that can be used
  87. for compression/decompression.</td>
  88. </tr>
  89. <tr>
  90. <td><a name="io.serializations">io.serializations</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.WritableSerialization</td><td>A list of serialization classes that can be used for
  91. obtaining serializers and deserializers.</td>
  92. </tr>
  93. <tr>
  94. <td><a name="fs.default.name">fs.default.name</a></td><td>file:///</td><td>The name of the default file system. A URI whose
  95. scheme and authority determine the FileSystem implementation. The
  96. uri's scheme determines the config property (fs.SCHEME.impl) naming
  97. the FileSystem implementation class. The uri's authority is used to
  98. determine the host, port, etc. for a filesystem.</td>
  99. </tr>
  100. <tr>
  101. <td><a name="fs.trash.interval">fs.trash.interval</a></td><td>0</td><td>Number of minutes between trash checkpoints.
  102. If zero, the trash feature is disabled.
  103. </td>
  104. </tr>
  105. <tr>
  106. <td><a name="fs.file.impl">fs.file.impl</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalFileSystem</td><td>The FileSystem for file: uris.</td>
  107. </tr>
  108. <tr>
  109. <td><a name="fs.hdfs.impl">fs.hdfs.impl</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DistributedFileSystem</td><td>The FileSystem for hdfs: uris.</td>
  110. </tr>
  111. <tr>
  112. <td><a name="fs.s3.impl">fs.s3.impl</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.S3FileSystem</td><td>The FileSystem for s3: uris.</td>
  113. </tr>
  114. <tr>
  115. <td><a name="fs.s3n.impl">fs.s3n.impl</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native.NativeS3FileSystem</td><td>The FileSystem for s3n: (Native S3) uris.</td>
  116. </tr>
  117. <tr>
  118. <td><a name="fs.kfs.impl">fs.kfs.impl</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.fs.kfs.KosmosFileSystem</td><td>The FileSystem for kfs: uris.</td>
  119. </tr>
  120. <tr>
  121. <td><a name="fs.hftp.impl">fs.hftp.impl</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HftpFileSystem</td><td></td>
  122. </tr>
  123. <tr>
  124. <td><a name="fs.hsftp.impl">fs.hsftp.impl</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.HsftpFileSystem</td><td></td>
  125. </tr>
  126. <tr>
  127. <td><a name="fs.ftp.impl">fs.ftp.impl</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.fs.ftp.FTPFileSystem</td><td>The FileSystem for ftp: uris.</td>
  128. </tr>
  129. <tr>
  130. <td><a name="fs.ramfs.impl">fs.ramfs.impl</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.fs.InMemoryFileSystem</td><td>The FileSystem for ramfs: uris.</td>
  131. </tr>
  132. <tr>
  133. <td><a name="fs.har.impl">fs.har.impl</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.fs.HarFileSystem</td><td>The filesystem for Hadoop archives. </td>
  134. </tr>
  135. <tr>
  136. <td><a name="fs.checkpoint.dir">fs.checkpoint.dir</a></td><td>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/namesecondary</td><td>Determines where on the local filesystem the DFS secondary
  137. name node should store the temporary images to merge.
  138. If this is a comma-delimited list of directories then the image is
  139. replicated in all of the directories for redundancy.
  140. </td>
  141. </tr>
  142. <tr>
  143. <td><a name="fs.checkpoint.edits.dir">fs.checkpoint.edits.dir</a></td><td>${fs.checkpoint.dir}</td><td>Determines where on the local filesystem the DFS secondary
  144. name node should store the temporary edits to merge.
  145. If this is a comma-delimited list of directoires then teh edits is
  146. replicated in all of the directoires for redundancy.
  147. Default value is same as fs.checkpoint.dir
  148. </td>
  149. </tr>
  150. <tr>
  151. <td><a name="fs.checkpoint.period">fs.checkpoint.period</a></td><td>3600</td><td>The number of seconds between two periodic checkpoints.
  152. </td>
  153. </tr>
  154. <tr>
  155. <td><a name="fs.checkpoint.size">fs.checkpoint.size</a></td><td>67108864</td><td>The size of the current edit log (in bytes) that triggers
  156. a periodic checkpoint even if the fs.checkpoint.period hasn't expired.
  157. </td>
  158. </tr>
  159. <tr>
  160. <td><a name="dfs.secondary.http.address">dfs.secondary.http.address</a></td><td>0.0.0.0:50090</td><td>
  161. The secondary namenode http server address and port.
  162. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port.
  163. </td>
  164. </tr>
  165. <tr>
  166. <td><a name="dfs.datanode.address">dfs.datanode.address</a></td><td>0.0.0.0:50010</td><td>
  167. The address where the datanode server will listen to.
  168. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port.
  169. </td>
  170. </tr>
  171. <tr>
  172. <td><a name="dfs.datanode.http.address">dfs.datanode.http.address</a></td><td>0.0.0.0:50075</td><td>
  173. The datanode http server address and port.
  174. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port.
  175. </td>
  176. </tr>
  177. <tr>
  178. <td><a name="dfs.datanode.ipc.address">dfs.datanode.ipc.address</a></td><td>0.0.0.0:50020</td><td>
  179. The datanode ipc server address and port.
  180. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port.
  181. </td>
  182. </tr>
  183. <tr>
  184. <td><a name="dfs.datanode.handler.count">dfs.datanode.handler.count</a></td><td>3</td><td>The number of server threads for the datanode.</td>
  185. </tr>
  186. <tr>
  187. <td><a name="dfs.http.address">dfs.http.address</a></td><td>0.0.0.0:50070</td><td>
  188. The address and the base port where the dfs namenode web ui will listen on.
  189. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port.
  190. </td>
  191. </tr>
  192. <tr>
  193. <td><a name="dfs.datanode.https.address">dfs.datanode.https.address</a></td><td>0.0.0.0:50475</td><td></td>
  194. </tr>
  195. <tr>
  196. <td><a name="dfs.https.address">dfs.https.address</a></td><td>0.0.0.0:50470</td><td></td>
  197. </tr>
  198. <tr>
  199. <td><a name="https.keystore.info.rsrc">https.keystore.info.rsrc</a></td><td>sslinfo.xml</td><td>The name of the resource from which ssl keystore information
  200. will be extracted
  201. </td>
  202. </tr>
  203. <tr>
  204. <td><a name="dfs.datanode.dns.interface">dfs.datanode.dns.interface</a></td><td>default</td><td>The name of the Network Interface from which a data node should
  205. report its IP address.
  206. </td>
  207. </tr>
  208. <tr>
  209. <td><a name="dfs.datanode.dns.nameserver">dfs.datanode.dns.nameserver</a></td><td>default</td><td>The host name or IP address of the name server (DNS)
  210. which a DataNode should use to determine the host name used by the
  211. NameNode for communication and display purposes.
  212. </td>
  213. </tr>
  214. <tr>
  215. <td><a name="dfs.replication.considerLoad">dfs.replication.considerLoad</a></td><td>true</td><td>Decide if chooseTarget considers the target's load or not
  216. </td>
  217. </tr>
  218. <tr>
  219. <td><a name="dfs.default.chunk.view.size">dfs.default.chunk.view.size</a></td><td>32768</td><td>The number of bytes to view for a file on the browser.
  220. </td>
  221. </tr>
  222. <tr>
  223. <td><a name="dfs.datanode.du.reserved">dfs.datanode.du.reserved</a></td><td>0</td><td>Reserved space in bytes per volume. Always leave this much space free for non dfs use.
  224. </td>
  225. </tr>
  226. <tr>
  227. <td><a name="dfs.datanode.du.pct">dfs.datanode.du.pct</a></td><td>0.98f</td><td>When calculating remaining space, only use this percentage of the real available space
  228. </td>
  229. </tr>
  230. <tr>
  231. <td><a name="dfs.name.dir">dfs.name.dir</a></td><td>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/name</td><td>Determines where on the local filesystem the DFS name node
  232. should store the name table(fsimage). If this is a comma-delimited list
  233. of directories then the name table is replicated in all of the
  234. directories, for redundancy. </td>
  235. </tr>
  236. <tr>
  237. <td><a name="dfs.name.edits.dir">dfs.name.edits.dir</a></td><td>${dfs.name.dir}</td><td>Determines where on the local filesystem the DFS name node
  238. should store the transaction (edits) file. If this is a comma-delimited list
  239. of directories then the transaction file is replicated in all of the
  240. directories, for redundancy. Default value is same as dfs.name.dir
  241. </td>
  242. </tr>
  243. <tr>
  244. <td><a name="dfs.web.ugi">dfs.web.ugi</a></td><td>webuser,webgroup</td><td>The user account used by the web interface.
  245. Syntax: USERNAME,GROUP1,GROUP2, ...
  246. </td>
  247. </tr>
  248. <tr>
  249. <td><a name="dfs.permissions">dfs.permissions</a></td><td>true</td><td>
  250. If "true", enable permission checking in HDFS.
  251. If "false", permission checking is turned off,
  252. but all other behavior is unchanged.
  253. Switching from one parameter value to the other does not change the mode,
  254. owner or group of files or directories.
  255. </td>
  256. </tr>
  257. <tr>
  258. <td><a name="dfs.permissions.supergroup">dfs.permissions.supergroup</a></td><td>supergroup</td><td>The name of the group of super-users.</td>
  259. </tr>
  260. <tr>
  261. <td><a name="dfs.data.dir">dfs.data.dir</a></td><td>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/data</td><td>Determines where on the local filesystem an DFS data node
  262. should store its blocks. If this is a comma-delimited
  263. list of directories, then data will be stored in all named
  264. directories, typically on different devices.
  265. Directories that do not exist are ignored.
  266. </td>
  267. </tr>
  268. <tr>
  269. <td><a name="dfs.replication">dfs.replication</a></td><td>3</td><td>Default block replication.
  270. The actual number of replications can be specified when the file is created.
  271. The default is used if replication is not specified in create time.
  272. </td>
  273. </tr>
  274. <tr>
  275. <td><a name="dfs.replication.max">dfs.replication.max</a></td><td>512</td><td>Maximal block replication.
  276. </td>
  277. </tr>
  278. <tr>
  279. <td><a name="dfs.replication.min">dfs.replication.min</a></td><td>1</td><td>Minimal block replication.
  280. </td>
  281. </tr>
  282. <tr>
  283. <td><a name="dfs.block.size">dfs.block.size</a></td><td>67108864</td><td>The default block size for new files.</td>
  284. </tr>
  285. <tr>
  286. <td><a name="dfs.df.interval">dfs.df.interval</a></td><td>60000</td><td>Disk usage statistics refresh interval in msec.</td>
  287. </tr>
  288. <tr>
  289. <td><a name="dfs.client.block.write.retries">dfs.client.block.write.retries</a></td><td>3</td><td>The number of retries for writing blocks to the data nodes,
  290. before we signal failure to the application.
  291. </td>
  292. </tr>
  293. <tr>
  294. <td><a name="dfs.blockreport.intervalMsec">dfs.blockreport.intervalMsec</a></td><td>3600000</td><td>Determines block reporting interval in milliseconds.</td>
  295. </tr>
  296. <tr>
  297. <td><a name="dfs.blockreport.initialDelay">dfs.blockreport.initialDelay</a></td><td>0</td><td>Delay for first block report in seconds.</td>
  298. </tr>
  299. <tr>
  300. <td><a name="dfs.heartbeat.interval">dfs.heartbeat.interval</a></td><td>3</td><td>Determines datanode heartbeat interval in seconds.</td>
  301. </tr>
  302. <tr>
  303. <td><a name="dfs.namenode.handler.count">dfs.namenode.handler.count</a></td><td>10</td><td>The number of server threads for the namenode.</td>
  304. </tr>
  305. <tr>
  306. <td><a name="dfs.safemode.threshold.pct">dfs.safemode.threshold.pct</a></td><td>0.999f</td><td>
  307. Specifies the percentage of blocks that should satisfy
  308. the minimal replication requirement defined by dfs.replication.min.
  309. Values less than or equal to 0 mean not to start in safe mode.
  310. Values greater than 1 will make safe mode permanent.
  311. </td>
  312. </tr>
  313. <tr>
  314. <td><a name="dfs.safemode.extension">dfs.safemode.extension</a></td><td>30000</td><td>
  315. Determines extension of safe mode in milliseconds
  316. after the threshold level is reached.
  317. </td>
  318. </tr>
  319. <tr>
  320. <td><a name="dfs.balance.bandwidthPerSec">dfs.balance.bandwidthPerSec</a></td><td>1048576</td><td>
  321. Specifies the maximum amount of bandwidth that each datanode
  322. can utilize for the balancing purpose in term of
  323. the number of bytes per second.
  324. </td>
  325. </tr>
  326. <tr>
  327. <td><a name="dfs.hosts">dfs.hosts</a></td><td></td><td>Names a file that contains a list of hosts that are
  328. permitted to connect to the namenode. The full pathname of the file
  329. must be specified. If the value is empty, all hosts are
  330. permitted.</td>
  331. </tr>
  332. <tr>
  333. <td><a name="dfs.hosts.exclude">dfs.hosts.exclude</a></td><td></td><td>Names a file that contains a list of hosts that are
  334. not permitted to connect to the namenode. The full pathname of the
  335. file must be specified. If the value is empty, no hosts are
  336. excluded.</td>
  337. </tr>
  338. <tr>
  339. <td><a name="dfs.max.objects">dfs.max.objects</a></td><td>0</td><td>The maximum number of files, directories and blocks
  340. dfs supports. A value of zero indicates no limit to the number
  341. of objects that dfs supports.
  342. </td>
  343. </tr>
  344. <tr>
  345. <td><a name="dfs.namenode.decommission.interval">dfs.namenode.decommission.interval</a></td><td>300</td><td>Namenode periodicity in seconds to check if decommission is
  346. complete.</td>
  347. </tr>
  348. <tr>
  349. <td><a name="dfs.replication.interval">dfs.replication.interval</a></td><td>3</td><td>The periodicity in seconds with which the namenode computes
  350. repliaction work for datanodes. </td>
  351. </tr>
  352. <tr>
  353. <td><a name="dfs.access.time.precision">dfs.access.time.precision</a></td><td>3600000</td><td>The access time for HDFS file is precise upto this value.
  354. The default value is 1 hour. Setting a value of 0 disables
  355. access times for HDFS.
  356. </td>
  357. </tr>
  358. <tr>
  359. <td><a name="fs.s3.block.size">fs.s3.block.size</a></td><td>67108864</td><td>Block size to use when writing files to S3.</td>
  360. </tr>
  361. <tr>
  362. <td><a name="fs.s3.buffer.dir">fs.s3.buffer.dir</a></td><td>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/s3</td><td>Determines where on the local filesystem the S3 filesystem
  363. should store files before sending them to S3
  364. (or after retrieving them from S3).
  365. </td>
  366. </tr>
  367. <tr>
  368. <td><a name="fs.s3.maxRetries">fs.s3.maxRetries</a></td><td>4</td><td>The maximum number of retries for reading or writing files to S3,
  369. before we signal failure to the application.
  370. </td>
  371. </tr>
  372. <tr>
  373. <td><a name="fs.s3.sleepTimeSeconds">fs.s3.sleepTimeSeconds</a></td><td>10</td><td>The number of seconds to sleep between each S3 retry.
  374. </td>
  375. </tr>
  376. <tr>
  377. <td><a name="mapred.job.tracker">mapred.job.tracker</a></td><td>local</td><td>The host and port that the MapReduce job tracker runs
  378. at. If "local", then jobs are run in-process as a single map
  379. and reduce task.
  380. </td>
  381. </tr>
  382. <tr>
  383. <td><a name="mapred.job.tracker.http.address">mapred.job.tracker.http.address</a></td><td>0.0.0.0:50030</td><td>
  384. The job tracker http server address and port the server will listen on.
  385. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port.
  386. </td>
  387. </tr>
  388. <tr>
  389. <td><a name="mapred.job.tracker.handler.count">mapred.job.tracker.handler.count</a></td><td>10</td><td>
  390. The number of server threads for the JobTracker. This should be roughly
  391. 4% of the number of tasktracker nodes.
  392. </td>
  393. </tr>
  394. <tr>
  395. <td><a name="mapred.task.tracker.report.address">mapred.task.tracker.report.address</a></td><td>127.0.0.1:0</td><td>The interface and port that task tracker server listens on.
  396. Since it is only connected to by the tasks, it uses the local interface.
  397. EXPERT ONLY. Should only be changed if your host does not have the loopback
  398. interface.</td>
  399. </tr>
  400. <tr>
  401. <td><a name="mapred.local.dir">mapred.local.dir</a></td><td>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/local</td><td>The local directory where MapReduce stores intermediate
  402. data files. May be a comma-separated list of
  403. directories on different devices in order to spread disk i/o.
  404. Directories that do not exist are ignored.
  405. </td>
  406. </tr>
  407. <tr>
  408. <td><a name="local.cache.size">local.cache.size</a></td><td>10737418240</td><td>The limit on the size of cache you want to keep, set by default
  409. to 10GB. This will act as a soft limit on the cache directory for out of band data.
  410. </td>
  411. </tr>
  412. <tr>
  413. <td><a name="mapred.system.dir">mapred.system.dir</a></td><td>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/system</td><td>The shared directory where MapReduce stores control files.
  414. </td>
  415. </tr>
  416. <tr>
  417. <td><a name="mapred.temp.dir">mapred.temp.dir</a></td><td>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/temp</td><td>A shared directory for temporary files.
  418. </td>
  419. </tr>
  420. <tr>
  421. <td><a name="mapred.local.dir.minspacestart">mapred.local.dir.minspacestart</a></td><td>0</td><td>If the space in mapred.local.dir drops under this,
  422. do not ask for more tasks.
  423. Value in bytes.
  424. </td>
  425. </tr>
  426. <tr>
  427. <td><a name="mapred.local.dir.minspacekill">mapred.local.dir.minspacekill</a></td><td>0</td><td>If the space in mapred.local.dir drops under this,
  428. do not ask more tasks until all the current ones have finished and
  429. cleaned up. Also, to save the rest of the tasks we have running,
  430. kill one of them, to clean up some space. Start with the reduce tasks,
  431. then go with the ones that have finished the least.
  432. Value in bytes.
  433. </td>
  434. </tr>
  435. <tr>
  436. <td><a name="mapred.tasktracker.expiry.interval">mapred.tasktracker.expiry.interval</a></td><td>600000</td><td>Expert: The time-interval, in miliseconds, after which
  437. a tasktracker is declared 'lost' if it doesn't send heartbeats.
  438. </td>
  439. </tr>
  440. <tr>
  441. <td><a name="mapred.tasktracker.instrumentation">mapred.tasktracker.instrumentation</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTrackerMetricsInst</td><td>Expert: The instrumentation class to associate with each TaskTracker.
  442. </td>
  443. </tr>
  444. <tr>
  445. <td><a name="mapred.tasktracker.taskmemorymanager.monitoring-interval">mapred.tasktracker.taskmemorymanager.monitoring-interval</a></td><td>5000</td><td>The interval, in milliseconds, for which the tasktracker waits
  446. between two cycles of monitoring its tasks' memory usage. Used only if
  447. tasks' memory management is enabled via mapred.tasktracker.tasks.maxmemory.
  448. </td>
  449. </tr>
  450. <tr>
  451. <td><a name="mapred.tasktracker.procfsbasedprocesstree.sleeptime-before-sigkill">mapred.tasktracker.procfsbasedprocesstree.sleeptime-before-sigkill</a></td><td>5000</td><td>The time, in milliseconds, the tasktracker waits for sending a
  452. SIGKILL to a process that has overrun memory limits, after it has been sent
  453. a SIGTERM. Used only if tasks' memory management is enabled via
  454. mapred.tasktracker.tasks.maxmemory.</td>
  455. </tr>
  456. <tr>
  457. <td><a name="mapred.map.tasks">mapred.map.tasks</a></td><td>2</td><td>The default number of map tasks per job. Typically set
  458. to a prime several times greater than number of available hosts.
  459. Ignored when mapred.job.tracker is "local".
  460. </td>
  461. </tr>
  462. <tr>
  463. <td><a name="mapred.reduce.tasks">mapred.reduce.tasks</a></td><td>1</td><td>The default number of reduce tasks per job. Typically set
  464. to a prime close to the number of available hosts. Ignored when
  465. mapred.job.tracker is "local".
  466. </td>
  467. </tr>
  468. <tr>
  469. <td><a name="mapred.jobtracker.restart.recover">mapred.jobtracker.restart.recover</a></td><td>false</td><td>"true" to enable (job) recovery upon restart,
  470. "false" to start afresh
  471. </td>
  472. </tr>
  473. <tr>
  474. <td><a name="mapred.jobtracker.job.history.block.size">mapred.jobtracker.job.history.block.size</a></td><td>3145728</td><td>The block size of the job history file. Since the job recovery
  475. uses job history, its important to dump job history to disk as
  476. soon as possible. Note that this is an expert level parameter.
  477. The default value is set to 3 MB.
  478. </td>
  479. </tr>
  480. <tr>
  481. <td><a name="mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler">mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobQueueTaskScheduler</td><td>The class responsible for scheduling the tasks.</td>
  482. </tr>
  483. <tr>
  484. <td><a name="mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler.maxRunningTasksPerJob">mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler.maxRunningTasksPerJob</a></td><td></td><td>The maximum number of running tasks for a job before
  485. it gets preempted. No limits if undefined.
  486. </td>
  487. </tr>
  488. <tr>
  489. <td><a name="mapred.map.max.attempts">mapred.map.max.attempts</a></td><td>4</td><td>Expert: The maximum number of attempts per map task.
  490. In other words, framework will try to execute a map task these many number
  491. of times before giving up on it.
  492. </td>
  493. </tr>
  494. <tr>
  495. <td><a name="mapred.reduce.max.attempts">mapred.reduce.max.attempts</a></td><td>4</td><td>Expert: The maximum number of attempts per reduce task.
  496. In other words, framework will try to execute a reduce task these many number
  497. of times before giving up on it.
  498. </td>
  499. </tr>
  500. <tr>
  501. <td><a name="mapred.reduce.parallel.copies">mapred.reduce.parallel.copies</a></td><td>5</td><td>The default number of parallel transfers run by reduce
  502. during the copy(shuffle) phase.
  503. </td>
  504. </tr>
  505. <tr>
  506. <td><a name="mapred.reduce.copy.backoff">mapred.reduce.copy.backoff</a></td><td>300</td><td>The maximum amount of time (in seconds) a reducer spends on
  507. fetching one map output before declaring it as failed.
  508. </td>
  509. </tr>
  510. <tr>
  511. <td><a name="mapred.task.timeout">mapred.task.timeout</a></td><td>600000</td><td>The number of milliseconds before a task will be
  512. terminated if it neither reads an input, writes an output, nor
  513. updates its status string.
  514. </td>
  515. </tr>
  516. <tr>
  517. <td><a name="mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum">mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum</a></td><td>2</td><td>The maximum number of map tasks that will be run
  518. simultaneously by a task tracker.
  519. </td>
  520. </tr>
  521. <tr>
  522. <td><a name="mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum">mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum</a></td><td>2</td><td>The maximum number of reduce tasks that will be run
  523. simultaneously by a task tracker.
  524. </td>
  525. </tr>
  526. <tr>
  527. <td><a name="mapred.jobtracker.completeuserjobs.maximum">mapred.jobtracker.completeuserjobs.maximum</a></td><td>100</td><td>The maximum number of complete jobs per user to keep around
  528. before delegating them to the job history.</td>
  529. </tr>
  530. <tr>
  531. <td><a name="mapred.jobtracker.instrumentation">mapred.jobtracker.instrumentation</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTrackerMetricsInst</td><td>Expert: The instrumentation class to associate with each JobTracker.
  532. </td>
  533. </tr>
  534. <tr>
  535. <td><a name="mapred.child.java.opts">mapred.child.java.opts</a></td><td>-Xmx200m</td><td>Java opts for the task tracker child processes.
  536. The following symbol, if present, will be interpolated: @taskid@ is replaced
  537. by current TaskID. Any other occurrences of '@' will go unchanged.
  538. For example, to enable verbose gc logging to a file named for the taskid in
  539. /tmp and to set the heap maximum to be a gigabyte, pass a 'value' of:
  540. -Xmx1024m -verbose:gc -Xloggc:/tmp/@taskid@.gc
  541. The configuration variable mapred.child.ulimit can be used to control the
  542. maximum virtual memory of the child processes.
  543. </td>
  544. </tr>
  545. <tr>
  546. <td><a name="mapred.child.ulimit">mapred.child.ulimit</a></td><td></td><td>The maximum virtual memory, in KB, of a process launched by the
  547. Map-Reduce framework. This can be used to control both the Mapper/Reducer
  548. tasks and applications using Hadoop Pipes, Hadoop Streaming etc.
  549. By default it is left unspecified to let cluster admins control it via
  550. limits.conf and other such relevant mechanisms.
  551. Note: mapred.child.ulimit must be greater than or equal to the -Xmx passed to
  552. JavaVM, else the VM might not start.
  553. </td>
  554. </tr>
  555. <tr>
  556. <td><a name="mapred.child.tmp">mapred.child.tmp</a></td><td>./tmp</td><td> To set the value of tmp directory for map and reduce tasks.
  557. If the value is an absolute path, it is directly assigned. Otherwise, it is
  558. prepended with task's working directory. The java tasks are executed with
  559. option -Djava.io.tmpdir='the absolute path of the tmp dir'. Pipes and
  560. streaming are set with environment variable,
  561. TMPDIR='the absolute path of the tmp dir'
  562. </td>
  563. </tr>
  564. <tr>
  565. <td><a name="mapred.inmem.merge.threshold">mapred.inmem.merge.threshold</a></td><td>1000</td><td>The threshold, in terms of the number of files
  566. for the in-memory merge process. When we accumulate threshold number of files
  567. we initiate the in-memory merge and spill to disk. A value of 0 or less than
  568. 0 indicates we want to DON'T have any threshold and instead depend only on
  569. the ramfs's memory consumption to trigger the merge.
  570. </td>
  571. </tr>
  572. <tr>
  573. <td><a name="mapred.job.shuffle.merge.percent">mapred.job.shuffle.merge.percent</a></td><td>0.66</td><td>The usage threshold at which an in-memory merge will be
  574. initiated, expressed as a percentage of the total memory allocated to
  575. storing in-memory map outputs, as defined by
  576. mapred.job.shuffle.input.buffer.percent.
  577. </td>
  578. </tr>
  579. <tr>
  580. <td><a name="mapred.job.shuffle.input.buffer.percent">mapred.job.shuffle.input.buffer.percent</a></td><td>0.70</td><td>The percentage of memory to be allocated from the maximum heap
  581. size to storing map outputs during the shuffle.
  582. </td>
  583. </tr>
  584. <tr>
  585. <td><a name="mapred.job.reduce.input.buffer.percent">mapred.job.reduce.input.buffer.percent</a></td><td>0.0</td><td>The percentage of memory- relative to the maximum heap size- to
  586. retain map outputs during the reduce. When the shuffle is concluded, any
  587. remaining map outputs in memory must consume less than this threshold before
  588. the reduce can begin.
  589. </td>
  590. </tr>
  591. <tr>
  592. <td><a name="mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution">mapred.map.tasks.speculative.execution</a></td><td>true</td><td>If true, then multiple instances of some map tasks
  593. may be executed in parallel.</td>
  594. </tr>
  595. <tr>
  596. <td><a name="mapred.reduce.tasks.speculative.execution">mapred.reduce.tasks.speculative.execution</a></td><td>true</td><td>If true, then multiple instances of some reduce tasks
  597. may be executed in parallel.</td>
  598. </tr>
  599. <tr>
  600. <td><a name="mapred.job.reuse.jvm.num.tasks">mapred.job.reuse.jvm.num.tasks</a></td><td>1</td><td>How many tasks to run per jvm. If set to -1, there is
  601. no limit.
  602. </td>
  603. </tr>
  604. <tr>
  605. <td><a name="mapred.min.split.size">mapred.min.split.size</a></td><td>0</td><td>The minimum size chunk that map input should be split
  606. into. Note that some file formats may have minimum split sizes that
  607. take priority over this setting.</td>
  608. </tr>
  609. <tr>
  610. <td><a name="mapred.jobtracker.maxtasks.per.job">mapred.jobtracker.maxtasks.per.job</a></td><td>-1</td><td>The maximum number of tasks for a single job.
  611. A value of -1 indicates that there is no maximum. </td>
  612. </tr>
  613. <tr>
  614. <td><a name="mapred.submit.replication">mapred.submit.replication</a></td><td>10</td><td>The replication level for submitted job files. This
  615. should be around the square root of the number of nodes.
  616. </td>
  617. </tr>
  618. <tr>
  619. <td><a name="mapred.tasktracker.dns.interface">mapred.tasktracker.dns.interface</a></td><td>default</td><td>The name of the Network Interface from which a task
  620. tracker should report its IP address.
  621. </td>
  622. </tr>
  623. <tr>
  624. <td><a name="mapred.tasktracker.dns.nameserver">mapred.tasktracker.dns.nameserver</a></td><td>default</td><td>The host name or IP address of the name server (DNS)
  625. which a TaskTracker should use to determine the host name used by
  626. the JobTracker for communication and display purposes.
  627. </td>
  628. </tr>
  629. <tr>
  630. <td><a name="tasktracker.http.threads">tasktracker.http.threads</a></td><td>40</td><td>The number of worker threads that for the http server. This is
  631. used for map output fetching
  632. </td>
  633. </tr>
  634. <tr>
  635. <td><a name="mapred.task.tracker.http.address">mapred.task.tracker.http.address</a></td><td>0.0.0.0:50060</td><td>
  636. The task tracker http server address and port.
  637. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port.
  638. </td>
  639. </tr>
  640. <tr>
  641. <td><a name="keep.failed.task.files">keep.failed.task.files</a></td><td>false</td><td>Should the files for failed tasks be kept. This should only be
  642. used on jobs that are failing, because the storage is never
  643. reclaimed. It also prevents the map outputs from being erased
  644. from the reduce directory as they are consumed.</td>
  645. </tr>
  646. <tr>
  647. <td><a name="mapred.output.compress">mapred.output.compress</a></td><td>false</td><td>Should the job outputs be compressed?
  648. </td>
  649. </tr>
  650. <tr>
  651. <td><a name="mapred.output.compression.type">mapred.output.compression.type</a></td><td>RECORD</td><td>If the job outputs are to compressed as SequenceFiles, how should
  652. they be compressed? Should be one of NONE, RECORD or BLOCK.
  653. </td>
  654. </tr>
  655. <tr>
  656. <td><a name="mapred.output.compression.codec">mapred.output.compression.codec</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</td><td>If the job outputs are compressed, how should they be compressed?
  657. </td>
  658. </tr>
  659. <tr>
  660. <td><a name="mapred.compress.map.output">mapred.compress.map.output</a></td><td>false</td><td>Should the outputs of the maps be compressed before being
  661. sent across the network. Uses SequenceFile compression.
  662. </td>
  663. </tr>
  664. <tr>
  665. <td><a name="mapred.map.output.compression.codec">mapred.map.output.compression.codec</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec</td><td>If the map outputs are compressed, how should they be
  666. compressed?
  667. </td>
  668. </tr>
  669. <tr>
  670. <td><a name="io.seqfile.compress.blocksize">io.seqfile.compress.blocksize</a></td><td>1000000</td><td>The minimum block size for compression in block compressed
  671. SequenceFiles.
  672. </td>
  673. </tr>
  674. <tr>
  675. <td><a name="io.seqfile.lazydecompress">io.seqfile.lazydecompress</a></td><td>true</td><td>Should values of block-compressed SequenceFiles be decompressed
  676. only when necessary.
  677. </td>
  678. </tr>
  679. <tr>
  680. <td><a name="io.seqfile.sorter.recordlimit">io.seqfile.sorter.recordlimit</a></td><td>1000000</td><td>The limit on number of records to be kept in memory in a spill
  681. in SequenceFiles.Sorter
  682. </td>
  683. </tr>
  684. <tr>
  685. <td><a name="map.sort.class">map.sort.class</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.util.QuickSort</td><td>The default sort class for sorting keys.
  686. </td>
  687. </tr>
  688. <tr>
  689. <td><a name="mapred.userlog.limit.kb">mapred.userlog.limit.kb</a></td><td>0</td><td>The maximum size of user-logs of each task in KB. 0 disables the cap.
  690. </td>
  691. </tr>
  692. <tr>
  693. <td><a name="mapred.userlog.retain.hours">mapred.userlog.retain.hours</a></td><td>24</td><td>The maximum time, in hours, for which the user-logs are to be
  694. retained.
  695. </td>
  696. </tr>
  697. <tr>
  698. <td><a name="mapred.hosts">mapred.hosts</a></td><td></td><td>Names a file that contains the list of nodes that may
  699. connect to the jobtracker. If the value is empty, all hosts are
  700. permitted.</td>
  701. </tr>
  702. <tr>
  703. <td><a name="mapred.hosts.exclude">mapred.hosts.exclude</a></td><td></td><td>Names a file that contains the list of hosts that
  704. should be excluded by the jobtracker. If the value is empty, no
  705. hosts are excluded.</td>
  706. </tr>
  707. <tr>
  708. <td><a name="mapred.max.tracker.failures">mapred.max.tracker.failures</a></td><td>4</td><td>The number of task-failures on a tasktracker of a given job
  709. after which new tasks of that job aren't assigned to it.
  710. </td>
  711. </tr>
  712. <tr>
  713. <td><a name="jobclient.output.filter">jobclient.output.filter</a></td><td>FAILED</td><td>The filter for controlling the output of the task's userlogs sent
  714. to the console of the JobClient.
  715. The permissible options are: NONE, KILLED, FAILED, SUCCEEDED and
  716. ALL.
  717. </td>
  718. </tr>
  719. <tr>
  720. <td><a name="mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.active">mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.active</a></td><td>false</td><td>Indicates if persistency of job status information is
  721. active or not.
  722. </td>
  723. </tr>
  724. <tr>
  725. <td><a name="mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.hours">mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.hours</a></td><td>0</td><td>The number of hours job status information is persisted in DFS.
  726. The job status information will be available after it drops of the memory
  727. queue and between jobtracker restarts. With a zero value the job status
  728. information is not persisted at all in DFS.
  729. </td>
  730. </tr>
  731. <tr>
  732. <td><a name="mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.dir">mapred.job.tracker.persist.jobstatus.dir</a></td><td>/jobtracker/jobsInfo</td><td>The directory where the job status information is persisted
  733. in a file system to be available after it drops of the memory queue and
  734. between jobtracker restarts.
  735. </td>
  736. </tr>
  737. <tr>
  738. <td><a name="mapred.task.profile">mapred.task.profile</a></td><td>false</td><td>To set whether the system should collect profiler
  739. information for some of the tasks in this job? The information is stored
  740. in the the user log directory. The value is "true" if task profiling
  741. is enabled.</td>
  742. </tr>
  743. <tr>
  744. <td><a name="mapred.task.profile.maps">mapred.task.profile.maps</a></td><td>0-2</td><td> To set the ranges of map tasks to profile.
  745. mapred.task.profile has to be set to true for the value to be accounted.
  746. </td>
  747. </tr>
  748. <tr>
  749. <td><a name="mapred.task.profile.reduces">mapred.task.profile.reduces</a></td><td>0-2</td><td> To set the ranges of reduce tasks to profile.
  750. mapred.task.profile has to be set to true for the value to be accounted.
  751. </td>
  752. </tr>
  753. <tr>
  754. <td><a name="mapred.line.input.format.linespermap">mapred.line.input.format.linespermap</a></td><td>1</td><td> Number of lines per split in NLineInputFormat.
  755. </td>
  756. </tr>
  757. <tr>
  758. <td><a name="mapred.skip.attempts.to.start.skipping">mapred.skip.attempts.to.start.skipping</a></td><td>2</td><td> The number of Task attempts AFTER which skip mode
  759. will be kicked off. When skip mode is kicked off, the
  760. tasks reports the range of records which it will process
  761. next, to the TaskTracker. So that on failures, TT knows which
  762. ones are possibly the bad records. On further executions,
  763. those are skipped.
  764. </td>
  765. </tr>
  766. <tr>
  767. <td><a name="mapred.skip.map.auto.incr.proc.count">mapred.skip.map.auto.incr.proc.count</a></td><td>true</td><td> The flag which if set to true,
  768. SkipBadRecords.COUNTER_MAP_PROCESSED_RECORDS is incremented
  769. by MapRunner after invoking the map function. This value must be set to
  770. false for applications which process the records asynchronously
  771. or buffer the input records. For example streaming.
  772. In such cases applications should increment this counter on their own.
  773. </td>
  774. </tr>
  775. <tr>
  776. <td><a name="mapred.skip.reduce.auto.incr.proc.count">mapred.skip.reduce.auto.incr.proc.count</a></td><td>true</td><td> The flag which if set to true,
  777. SkipBadRecords.COUNTER_REDUCE_PROCESSED_GROUPS is incremented
  778. by framework after invoking the reduce function. This value must be set to
  779. false for applications which process the records asynchronously
  780. or buffer the input records. For example streaming.
  781. In such cases applications should increment this counter on their own.
  782. </td>
  783. </tr>
  784. <tr>
  785. <td><a name="mapred.skip.out.dir">mapred.skip.out.dir</a></td><td></td><td> If no value is specified here, the skipped records are
  786. written to the output directory at _logs/skip.
  787. User can stop writing skipped records by giving the value "none".
  788. </td>
  789. </tr>
  790. <tr>
  791. <td><a name="mapred.skip.map.max.skip.records">mapred.skip.map.max.skip.records</a></td><td>0</td><td> The number of acceptable skip records surrounding the bad
  792. record PER bad record in mapper. The number includes the bad record as well.
  793. To turn the feature of detection/skipping of bad records off, set the
  794. value to 0.
  795. The framework tries to narrow down the skipped range by retrying
  796. until this threshold is met OR all attempts get exhausted for this task.
  797. Set the value to Long.MAX_VALUE to indicate that framework need not try to
  798. narrow down. Whatever records(depends on application) get skipped are
  799. acceptable.
  800. </td>
  801. </tr>
  802. <tr>
  803. <td><a name="mapred.skip.reduce.max.skip.groups">mapred.skip.reduce.max.skip.groups</a></td><td>0</td><td> The number of acceptable skip groups surrounding the bad
  804. group PER bad group in reducer. The number includes the bad group as well.
  805. To turn the feature of detection/skipping of bad groups off, set the
  806. value to 0.
  807. The framework tries to narrow down the skipped range by retrying
  808. until this threshold is met OR all attempts get exhausted for this task.
  809. Set the value to Long.MAX_VALUE to indicate that framework need not try to
  810. narrow down. Whatever groups(depends on application) get skipped are
  811. acceptable.
  812. </td>
  813. </tr>
  814. <tr>
  815. <td><a name="ipc.client.idlethreshold">ipc.client.idlethreshold</a></td><td>4000</td><td>Defines the threshold number of connections after which
  816. connections will be inspected for idleness.
  817. </td>
  818. </tr>
  819. <tr>
  820. <td><a name="ipc.client.kill.max">ipc.client.kill.max</a></td><td>10</td><td>Defines the maximum number of clients to disconnect in one go.
  821. </td>
  822. </tr>
  823. <tr>
  824. <td><a name="ipc.client.connection.maxidletime">ipc.client.connection.maxidletime</a></td><td>10000</td><td>The maximum time in msec after which a client will bring down the
  825. connection to the server.
  826. </td>
  827. </tr>
  828. <tr>
  829. <td><a name="ipc.client.connect.max.retries">ipc.client.connect.max.retries</a></td><td>10</td><td>Indicates the number of retries a client will make to establish
  830. a server connection.
  831. </td>
  832. </tr>
  833. <tr>
  834. <td><a name="ipc.server.listen.queue.size">ipc.server.listen.queue.size</a></td><td>128</td><td>Indicates the length of the listen queue for servers accepting
  835. client connections.
  836. </td>
  837. </tr>
  838. <tr>
  839. <td><a name="ipc.server.tcpnodelay">ipc.server.tcpnodelay</a></td><td>false</td><td>Turn on/off Nagle's algorithm for the TCP socket connection on
  840. the server. Setting to true disables the algorithm and may decrease latency
  841. with a cost of more/smaller packets.
  842. </td>
  843. </tr>
  844. <tr>
  845. <td><a name="ipc.client.tcpnodelay">ipc.client.tcpnodelay</a></td><td>false</td><td>Turn on/off Nagle's algorithm for the TCP socket connection on
  846. the client. Setting to true disables the algorithm and may decrease latency
  847. with a cost of more/smaller packets.
  848. </td>
  849. </tr>
  850. <tr>
  851. <td><a name="job.end.retry.attempts">job.end.retry.attempts</a></td><td>0</td><td>Indicates how many times hadoop should attempt to contact the
  852. notification URL </td>
  853. </tr>
  854. <tr>
  855. <td><a name="job.end.retry.interval">job.end.retry.interval</a></td><td>30000</td><td>Indicates time in milliseconds between notification URL retry
  856. calls</td>
  857. </tr>
  858. <tr>
  859. <td><a name="webinterface.private.actions">webinterface.private.actions</a></td><td>false</td><td> If set to true, the web interfaces of JT and NN may contain
  860. actions, such as kill job, delete file, etc., that should
  861. not be exposed to public. Enable this option if the interfaces
  862. are only reachable by those who have the right authorization.
  863. </td>
  864. </tr>
  865. <tr>
  866. <td><a name="hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.default">hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.default</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.net.StandardSocketFactory</td><td> Default SocketFactory to use. This parameter is expected to be
  867. formatted as "package.FactoryClassName".
  868. </td>
  869. </tr>
  870. <tr>
  871. <td><a name="hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.ClientProtocol">hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.ClientProtocol</a></td><td></td><td> SocketFactory to use to connect to a DFS. If null or empty, use
  872. hadoop.rpc.socket.class.default. This socket factory is also used by
  873. DFSClient to create sockets to DataNodes.
  874. </td>
  875. </tr>
  876. <tr>
  877. <td><a name="hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.JobSubmissionProtocol">hadoop.rpc.socket.factory.class.JobSubmissionProtocol</a></td><td></td><td> SocketFactory to use to connect to a Map/Reduce master
  878. (JobTracker). If null or empty, then use hadoop.rpc.socket.class.default.
  879. </td>
  880. </tr>
  881. <tr>
  882. <td><a name="hadoop.socks.server">hadoop.socks.server</a></td><td></td><td> Address (host:port) of the SOCKS server to be used by the
  883. SocksSocketFactory.
  884. </td>
  885. </tr>
  886. <tr>
  887. <td><a name="topology.node.switch.mapping.impl">topology.node.switch.mapping.impl</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.net.ScriptBasedMapping</td><td> The default implementation of the DNSToSwitchMapping. It
  888. invokes a script specified in topology.script.file.name to resolve
  889. node names. If the value for topology.script.file.name is not set, the
  890. default value of DEFAULT_RACK is returned for all node names.
  891. </td>
  892. </tr>
  893. <tr>
  894. <td><a name="topology.script.file.name">topology.script.file.name</a></td><td></td><td> The script name that should be invoked to resolve DNS names to
  895. NetworkTopology names. Example: the script would take host.foo.bar as an
  896. argument, and return /rack1 as the output.
  897. </td>
  898. </tr>
  899. <tr>
  900. <td><a name="topology.script.number.args">topology.script.number.args</a></td><td>100</td><td> The max number of args that the script configured with
  901. topology.script.file.name should be run with. Each arg is an
  902. IP address.
  903. </td>
  904. </tr>
  905. <tr>
  906. <td><a name="mapred.task.cache.levels">mapred.task.cache.levels</a></td><td>2</td><td> This is the max level of the task cache. For example, if
  907. the level is 2, the tasks cached are at the host level and at the rack
  908. level.
  909. </td>
  910. </tr>
  911. <tr>
  912. <td><a name="mapred.tasktracker.tasks.maxmemory">mapred.tasktracker.tasks.maxmemory</a></td><td>-1</td><td> The maximum amount of virtual memory in kilobytes all tasks
  913. running on a tasktracker, including sub-processes they launch, can use.
  914. This value is used to compute the amount of free memory available for
  915. tasks. Any task scheduled on this tasktracker is guaranteed and constrained
  916. to use a share of this amount. Any task exceeding its share will be
  917. killed. If set to -1, this functionality is disabled, and
  918. mapred.task.maxmemory is ignored. Further, it will be enabled only on the
  919. systems where org.apache.hadoop.util.ProcfsBasedProcessTree is available,
  920. i.e at present only on Linux.
  921. </td>
  922. </tr>
  923. <tr>
  924. <td><a name="mapred.task.maxmemory">mapred.task.maxmemory</a></td><td>-1</td><td> The maximum amount of memory in kilobytes any task of a job
  925. will use. A task of this job will be scheduled on a tasktracker, only if
  926. the amount of free memory on the tasktracker is greater than or
  927. equal to this value. If set to -1, tasks are assured a memory limit on
  928. the tasktracker equal to
  929. mapred.tasktracker.tasks.maxmemory/number of slots. If the value of
  930. mapred.tasktracker.tasks.maxmemory is set to -1, this value is ignored.
  931. Note: If mapred.child.java.opts is specified with an Xmx value, or if
  932. mapred.child.ulimit is specified, then the value of mapred.task.maxmemory
  933. must be set to a higher value than these. If not, the task might be
  934. killed even though these limits are not reached.
  935. </td>
  936. </tr>
  937. <tr>
  938. <td><a name="mapred.queue.names">mapred.queue.names</a></td><td>default</td><td> Comma separated list of queues configured for this jobtracker.
  939. Jobs are added to queues and schedulers can configure different
  940. scheduling properties for the various queues. To configure a property
  941. for a queue, the name of the queue must match the name specified in this
  942. value. Queue properties that are common to all schedulers are configured
  943. here with the naming convention, mapred.queue.$QUEUE-NAME.$PROPERTY-NAME,
  944. for e.g. mapred.queue.default.submit-job-acl.
  945. The number of queues configured in this parameter could depend on the
  946. type of scheduler being used, as specified in
  947. mapred.jobtracker.taskScheduler. For example, the JobQueueTaskScheduler
  948. supports only a single queue, which is the default configured here.
  949. Before adding more queues, ensure that the scheduler you've configured
  950. supports multiple queues.
  951. </td>
  952. </tr>
  953. <tr>
  954. <td><a name="mapred.acls.enabled">mapred.acls.enabled</a></td><td>false</td><td> Specifies whether ACLs are enabled, and should be checked
  955. for various operations.
  956. </td>
  957. </tr>
  958. <tr>
  959. <td><a name="mapred.queue.default.acl-submit-job">mapred.queue.default.acl-submit-job</a></td><td>*</td><td> Comma separated list of user and group names that are allowed
  960. to submit jobs to the 'default' queue. The user list and the group list
  961. are separated by a blank. For e.g. alice,bob group1,group2.
  962. If set to the special value '*', it means all users are allowed to
  963. submit jobs.
  964. </td>
  965. </tr>
  966. <tr>
  967. <td><a name="mapred.queue.default.acl-administer-jobs">mapred.queue.default.acl-administer-jobs</a></td><td>*</td><td> Comma separated list of user and group names that are allowed
  968. to delete jobs or modify job's priority for jobs not owned by the current
  969. user in the 'default' queue. The user list and the group list
  970. are separated by a blank. For e.g. alice,bob group1,group2.
  971. If set to the special value '*', it means all users are allowed to do
  972. this operation.
  973. </td>
  974. </tr>
  975. <tr>
  976. <td><a name="mapred.job.queue.name">mapred.job.queue.name</a></td><td>default</td><td> Queue to which a job is submitted. This must match one of the
  977. queues defined in mapred.queue.names for the system. Also, the ACL setup
  978. for the queue must allow the current user to submit a job to the queue.
  979. Before specifying a queue, ensure that the system is configured with
  980. the queue, and access is allowed for submitting jobs to the queue.
  981. </td>
  982. </tr>
  983. <tr>
  984. <td><a name="mapred.tasktracker.indexcache.mb">mapred.tasktracker.indexcache.mb</a></td><td>10</td><td> The maximum memory that a task tracker allows for the
  985. index cache that is used when serving map outputs to reducers.
  986. </td>
  987. </tr>
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