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  1. <html>
  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.logfile.size">hadoop.logfile.size</a></td><td>10000000</td><td>The max size of each log file</td>
  15. </tr>
  16. <tr>
  17. <td><a name="hadoop.logfile.count">hadoop.logfile.count</a></td><td>10</td><td>The max number of log files</td>
  18. </tr>
  19. <tr>
  20. <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
  21. e namespace mutations), "block"(trace block under/over replications and block
  22. creations/deletions), or "all".</td>
  23. </tr>
  24. <tr>
  25. <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
  26. files. This determines the number of open file handles.</td>
  27. </tr>
  28. <tr>
  29. <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
  30. files, in megabytes. By default, gives each merge stream 1MB, which
  31. should minimize seeks.</td>
  32. </tr>
  33. <tr>
  34. <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.
  35. The size of this buffer should probably be a multiple of hardware
  36. page size (4096 on Intel x86), and it determines how much data is
  37. buffered during read and write operations.</td>
  38. </tr>
  39. <tr>
  40. <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
  41. io.file.buffer.size.</td>
  42. </tr>
  43. <tr>
  44. <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
  45. reading a sequence file, entries are skipped, instead of throwing an
  46. exception.</td>
  47. </tr>
  48. <tr>
  49. <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.
  50. Zero by default. Setting this to values larger than zero can
  51. facilitate opening large map files using less memory.</td>
  52. </tr>
  53. <tr>
  54. <td><a name="io.compression.codecs">io.compression.codecs</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.DefaultCodec,org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec</td><td>A list of the compression codec classes that can be used
  55. for compression/decompression.</td>
  56. </tr>
  57. <tr>
  58. <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
  59. scheme and authority determine the FileSystem implementation. The
  60. uri's scheme determines the config property (fs.SCHEME.impl) naming
  61. the FileSystem implementation class. The uri's authority is used to
  62. determine the host, port, etc. for a filesystem.</td>
  63. </tr>
  64. <tr>
  65. <td><a name="fs.trash.interval">fs.trash.interval</a></td><td>0</td><td>Number of minutes between trash checkpoints.
  66. If zero, the trash feature is disabled.
  67. </td>
  68. </tr>
  69. <tr>
  70. <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>
  71. </tr>
  72. <tr>
  73. <td><a name="fs.hdfs.impl">fs.hdfs.impl</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DistributedFileSystem</td><td>The FileSystem for hdfs: uris.</td>
  74. </tr>
  75. <tr>
  76. <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>
  77. </tr>
  78. <tr>
  79. <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>
  80. </tr>
  81. <tr>
  82. <td><a name="fs.hftp.impl">fs.hftp.impl</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.dfs.HftpFileSystem</td><td></td>
  83. </tr>
  84. <tr>
  85. <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>
  86. </tr>
  87. <tr>
  88. <td><a name="fs.inmemory.size.mb">fs.inmemory.size.mb</a></td><td>75</td><td>The size of the in-memory filsystem instance in MB</td>
  89. </tr>
  90. <tr>
  91. <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
  92. name node should store the temporary images and edits to merge.
  93. </td>
  94. </tr>
  95. <tr>
  96. <td><a name="fs.checkpoint.period">fs.checkpoint.period</a></td><td>3600</td><td>The number of seconds between two periodic checkpoints.
  97. </td>
  98. </tr>
  99. <tr>
  100. <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
  101. a periodic checkpoint even if the fs.checkpoint.period hasn't expired.
  102. </td>
  103. </tr>
  104. <tr>
  105. <td><a name="dfs.secondary.http.address">dfs.secondary.http.address</a></td><td>0.0.0.0:50090</td><td>
  106. The secondary namenode http server address and port.
  107. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port.
  108. </td>
  109. </tr>
  110. <tr>
  111. <td><a name="dfs.datanode.address">dfs.datanode.address</a></td><td>0.0.0.0:50010</td><td>
  112. The address where the datanode server will listen to.
  113. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port.
  114. </td>
  115. </tr>
  116. <tr>
  117. <td><a name="dfs.datanode.http.address">dfs.datanode.http.address</a></td><td>0.0.0.0:50075</td><td>
  118. The datanode http server address and port.
  119. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port.
  120. </td>
  121. </tr>
  122. <tr>
  123. <td><a name="dfs.http.address">dfs.http.address</a></td><td>0.0.0.0:50070</td><td>
  124. The address and the base port where the dfs namenode web ui will listen on.
  125. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port.
  126. </td>
  127. </tr>
  128. <tr>
  129. <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
  130. report its IP address.
  131. </td>
  132. </tr>
  133. <tr>
  134. <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)
  135. which a DataNode should use to determine the host name used by the
  136. NameNode for communication and display purposes.
  137. </td>
  138. </tr>
  139. <tr>
  140. <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
  141. </td>
  142. </tr>
  143. <tr>
  144. <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.
  145. </td>
  146. </tr>
  147. <tr>
  148. <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.
  149. </td>
  150. </tr>
  151. <tr>
  152. <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
  153. </td>
  154. </tr>
  155. <tr>
  156. <td><a name="dfs.name.dir">dfs.name.dir</a></td><td>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/name</td><td>Determines where on the local filesystem the DFS name node
  157. should store the name table. If this is a comma-delimited list
  158. of directories then the name table is replicated in all of the
  159. directories, for redundancy. </td>
  160. </tr>
  161. <tr>
  162. <td><a name="dfs.web.ugi">dfs.web.ugi</a></td><td>webuser,webgroup</td><td>The user account used by the web interface.
  163. Syntax: USERNAME,GROUP1,GROUP2, ...
  164. </td>
  165. </tr>
  166. <tr>
  167. <td><a name="dfs.permissions">dfs.permissions</a></td><td>true</td><td>
  168. If "true", enable permission checking in HDFS.
  169. If "false", permission checking is turned off,
  170. but all other behavior is unchanged.
  171. Switching from one parameter value to the other does not change the mode,
  172. owner or group of files or directories.
  173. </td>
  174. </tr>
  175. <tr>
  176. <td><a name="dfs.permissions.supergroup">dfs.permissions.supergroup</a></td><td>supergroup</td><td>The name of the group of super-users.</td>
  177. </tr>
  178. <tr>
  179. <td><a name="dfs.client.buffer.dir">dfs.client.buffer.dir</a></td><td>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/dfs/tmp</td><td>Determines where on the local filesystem an DFS client
  180. should store its blocks before it sends them to the datanode.
  181. </td>
  182. </tr>
  183. <tr>
  184. <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
  185. should store its blocks. If this is a comma-delimited
  186. list of directories, then data will be stored in all named
  187. directories, typically on different devices.
  188. Directories that do not exist are ignored.
  189. </td>
  190. </tr>
  191. <tr>
  192. <td><a name="dfs.replication">dfs.replication</a></td><td>3</td><td>Default block replication.
  193. The actual number of replications can be specified when the file is created.
  194. The default is used if replication is not specified in create time.
  195. </td>
  196. </tr>
  197. <tr>
  198. <td><a name="dfs.replication.max">dfs.replication.max</a></td><td>512</td><td>Maximal block replication.
  199. </td>
  200. </tr>
  201. <tr>
  202. <td><a name="dfs.replication.min">dfs.replication.min</a></td><td>1</td><td>Minimal block replication.
  203. </td>
  204. </tr>
  205. <tr>
  206. <td><a name="dfs.block.size">dfs.block.size</a></td><td>67108864</td><td>The default block size for new files.</td>
  207. </tr>
  208. <tr>
  209. <td><a name="dfs.df.interval">dfs.df.interval</a></td><td>60000</td><td>Disk usage statistics refresh interval in msec.</td>
  210. </tr>
  211. <tr>
  212. <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,
  213. before we signal failure to the application.
  214. </td>
  215. </tr>
  216. <tr>
  217. <td><a name="dfs.blockreport.intervalMsec">dfs.blockreport.intervalMsec</a></td><td>3600000</td><td>Determines block reporting interval in milliseconds.</td>
  218. </tr>
  219. <tr>
  220. <td><a name="dfs.heartbeat.interval">dfs.heartbeat.interval</a></td><td>3</td><td>Determines datanode heartbeat interval in seconds.</td>
  221. </tr>
  222. <tr>
  223. <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>
  224. </tr>
  225. <tr>
  226. <td><a name="dfs.safemode.threshold.pct">dfs.safemode.threshold.pct</a></td><td>0.999f</td><td>
  227. Specifies the percentage of blocks that should satisfy
  228. the minimal replication requirement defined by dfs.replication.min.
  229. Values less than or equal to 0 mean not to start in safe mode.
  230. Values greater than 1 will make safe mode permanent.
  231. </td>
  232. </tr>
  233. <tr>
  234. <td><a name="dfs.safemode.extension">dfs.safemode.extension</a></td><td>30000</td><td>
  235. Determines extension of safe mode in milliseconds
  236. after the threshold level is reached.
  237. </td>
  238. </tr>
  239. <tr>
  240. <td><a name="dfs.network.script">dfs.network.script</a></td><td></td><td>
  241. Specifies a script name that print the network location path
  242. of the current machine.
  243. </td>
  244. </tr>
  245. <tr>
  246. <td><a name="dfs.balance.bandwidthPerSec">dfs.balance.bandwidthPerSec</a></td><td>1048576</td><td>
  247. Specifies the maximum amount of bandwidth that each datanode
  248. can utilize for the balancing purpose in term of
  249. the number of bytes per second.
  250. </td>
  251. </tr>
  252. <tr>
  253. <td><a name="dfs.hosts">dfs.hosts</a></td><td></td><td>Names a file that contains a list of hosts that are
  254. permitted to connect to the namenode. The full pathname of the file
  255. must be specified. If the value is empty, all hosts are
  256. permitted.</td>
  257. </tr>
  258. <tr>
  259. <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
  260. not permitted to connect to the namenode. The full pathname of the
  261. file must be specified. If the value is empty, no hosts are
  262. excluded.</td>
  263. </tr>
  264. <tr>
  265. <td><a name="dfs.max.objects">dfs.max.objects</a></td><td>0</td><td>The maximum number of files, directories and blocks
  266. dfs supports. A value of zero indicates no limit to the number
  267. of objects that dfs supports.
  268. </td>
  269. </tr>
  270. <tr>
  271. <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 complete.</td>
  272. </tr>
  273. <tr>
  274. <td><a name="dfs.replication.interval">dfs.replication.interval</a></td><td>3</td><td>The periodicity in seconds with which the namenode computes repliaction work for datanodes. </td>
  275. </tr>
  276. <tr>
  277. <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>
  278. </tr>
  279. <tr>
  280. <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
  281. should store its blocks before it sends them to S3
  282. or after it retrieves them from S3.
  283. </td>
  284. </tr>
  285. <tr>
  286. <td><a name="fs.s3.maxRetries">fs.s3.maxRetries</a></td><td>4</td><td>The maximum number of retries for reading or writing blocks to S3,
  287. before we signal failure to the application.
  288. </td>
  289. </tr>
  290. <tr>
  291. <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.
  292. </td>
  293. </tr>
  294. <tr>
  295. <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
  296. at. If "local", then jobs are run in-process as a single map
  297. and reduce task.
  298. </td>
  299. </tr>
  300. <tr>
  301. <td><a name="mapred.job.tracker.http.address">mapred.job.tracker.http.address</a></td><td>0.0.0.0:50030</td><td>
  302. The job tracker http server address and port the server will listen on.
  303. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port.
  304. </td>
  305. </tr>
  306. <tr>
  307. <td><a name="mapred.job.tracker.handler.count">mapred.job.tracker.handler.count</a></td><td>10</td><td>
  308. The number of server threads for the JobTracker. This should be roughly
  309. 4% of the number of tasktracker nodes.
  310. </td>
  311. </tr>
  312. <tr>
  313. <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.
  314. Since it is only connected to by the tasks, it uses the local interface.
  315. EXPERT ONLY. Should only be changed if your host does not have the loopback
  316. interface.</td>
  317. </tr>
  318. <tr>
  319. <td><a name="mapred.local.dir">mapred.local.dir</a></td><td>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/local</td><td>The local directory where MapReduce stores intermediate
  320. data files. May be a comma-separated list of
  321. directories on different devices in order to spread disk i/o.
  322. Directories that do not exist are ignored.
  323. </td>
  324. </tr>
  325. <tr>
  326. <td><a name="local.cache.size">local.cache.size</a></td><td>10737418240</td><td>The limit on the size of cache you want to keep, set by default
  327. to 10GB. This will act as a soft limit on the cache directory for out of band data.
  328. </td>
  329. </tr>
  330. <tr>
  331. <td><a name="mapred.system.dir">mapred.system.dir</a></td><td>${hadoop.tmp.dir}/mapred/system</td><td>The shared directory where MapReduce stores control files.
  332. </td>
  333. </tr>
  334. <tr>
  335. <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.
  336. </td>
  337. </tr>
  338. <tr>
  339. <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,
  340. do not ask for more tasks.
  341. Value in bytes.
  342. </td>
  343. </tr>
  344. <tr>
  345. <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,
  346. do not ask more tasks until all the current ones have finished and
  347. cleaned up. Also, to save the rest of the tasks we have running,
  348. kill one of them, to clean up some space. Start with the reduce tasks,
  349. then go with the ones that have finished the least.
  350. Value in bytes.
  351. </td>
  352. </tr>
  353. <tr>
  354. <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
  355. a tasktracker is declared 'lost' if it doesn't send heartbeats.
  356. </td>
  357. </tr>
  358. <tr>
  359. <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
  360. to a prime several times greater than number of available hosts.
  361. Ignored when mapred.job.tracker is "local".
  362. </td>
  363. </tr>
  364. <tr>
  365. <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
  366. to a prime close to the number of available hosts. Ignored when
  367. mapred.job.tracker is "local".
  368. </td>
  369. </tr>
  370. <tr>
  371. <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.
  372. In other words, framework will try to execute a map task these many number
  373. of times before giving up on it.
  374. </td>
  375. </tr>
  376. <tr>
  377. <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.
  378. In other words, framework will try to execute a reduce task these many number
  379. of times before giving up on it.
  380. </td>
  381. </tr>
  382. <tr>
  383. <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
  384. during the copy(shuffle) phase.
  385. </td>
  386. </tr>
  387. <tr>
  388. <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
  389. fetching one map output before declaring it as failed.
  390. </td>
  391. </tr>
  392. <tr>
  393. <td><a name="mapred.task.timeout">mapred.task.timeout</a></td><td>600000</td><td>The number of milliseconds before a task will be
  394. terminated if it neither reads an input, writes an output, nor
  395. updates its status string.
  396. </td>
  397. </tr>
  398. <tr>
  399. <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
  400. simultaneously by a task tracker.
  401. </td>
  402. </tr>
  403. <tr>
  404. <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
  405. simultaneously by a task tracker.
  406. </td>
  407. </tr>
  408. <tr>
  409. <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 before delegating them to the job history.
  410. </td>
  411. </tr>
  412. <tr>
  413. <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.
  414. The following symbol, if present, will be interpolated: @taskid@ is replaced
  415. by current TaskID. Any other occurrences of '@' will go unchanged.
  416. For example, to enable verbose gc logging to a file named for the taskid in
  417. /tmp and to set the heap maximum to be a gigabyte, pass a 'value' of:
  418. -Xmx1024m -verbose:gc -Xloggc:/tmp/@taskid@.gc
  419. </td>
  420. </tr>
  421. <tr>
  422. <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
  423. for the in-memory merge process. When we accumulate threshold number of files
  424. we initiate the in-memory merge and spill to disk. A value of 0 or less than
  425. 0 indicates we want to DON'T have any threshold and instead depend only on
  426. the ramfs's memory consumption to trigger the merge.
  427. </td>
  428. </tr>
  429. <tr>
  430. <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
  431. may be executed in parallel.</td>
  432. </tr>
  433. <tr>
  434. <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
  435. may be executed in parallel.</td>
  436. </tr>
  437. <tr>
  438. <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
  439. into. Note that some file formats may have minimum split sizes that
  440. take priority over this setting.</td>
  441. </tr>
  442. <tr>
  443. <td><a name="mapred.submit.replication">mapred.submit.replication</a></td><td>10</td><td>The replication level for submitted job files. This
  444. should be around the square root of the number of nodes.
  445. </td>
  446. </tr>
  447. <tr>
  448. <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
  449. tracker should report its IP address.
  450. </td>
  451. </tr>
  452. <tr>
  453. <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)
  454. which a TaskTracker should use to determine the host name used by
  455. the JobTracker for communication and display purposes.
  456. </td>
  457. </tr>
  458. <tr>
  459. <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
  460. used for map output fetching
  461. </td>
  462. </tr>
  463. <tr>
  464. <td><a name="mapred.task.tracker.http.address">mapred.task.tracker.http.address</a></td><td>0.0.0.0:50060</td><td>
  465. The task tracker http server address and port.
  466. If the port is 0 then the server will start on a free port.
  467. </td>
  468. </tr>
  469. <tr>
  470. <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
  471. used on jobs that are failing, because the storage is never
  472. reclaimed. It also prevents the map outputs from being erased
  473. from the reduce directory as they are consumed.</td>
  474. </tr>
  475. <tr>
  476. <td><a name="mapred.output.compress">mapred.output.compress</a></td><td>false</td><td>Should the job outputs be compressed?
  477. </td>
  478. </tr>
  479. <tr>
  480. <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
  481. they be compressed? Should be one of NONE, RECORD or BLOCK.
  482. </td>
  483. </tr>
  484. <tr>
  485. <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?
  486. </td>
  487. </tr>
  488. <tr>
  489. <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
  490. sent across the network. Uses SequenceFile compression.
  491. </td>
  492. </tr>
  493. <tr>
  494. <td><a name="mapred.map.output.compression.type">mapred.map.output.compression.type</a></td><td>RECORD</td><td>If the map outputs are to compressed, how should they
  495. be compressed? Should be one of NONE, RECORD or BLOCK.
  496. </td>
  497. </tr>
  498. <tr>
  499. <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
  500. compressed?
  501. </td>
  502. </tr>
  503. <tr>
  504. <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
  505. SequenceFiles.
  506. </td>
  507. </tr>
  508. <tr>
  509. <td><a name="io.seqfile.lazydecompress">io.seqfile.lazydecompress</a></td><td>true</td><td>Should values of block-compressed SequenceFiles be decompressed
  510. only when necessary.
  511. </td>
  512. </tr>
  513. <tr>
  514. <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
  515. in SequenceFiles.Sorter
  516. </td>
  517. </tr>
  518. <tr>
  519. <td><a name="io.seqfile.compression.type">io.seqfile.compression.type</a></td><td>RECORD</td><td>The default compression type for SequenceFile.Writer.
  520. </td>
  521. </tr>
  522. <tr>
  523. <td><a name="map.sort.class">map.sort.class</a></td><td>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MergeSorter</td><td>The default sort class for sorting keys.
  524. </td>
  525. </tr>
  526. <tr>
  527. <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.
  528. </td>
  529. </tr>
  530. <tr>
  531. <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
  532. retained.
  533. </td>
  534. </tr>
  535. <tr>
  536. <td><a name="mapred.hosts">mapred.hosts</a></td><td></td><td>Names a file that contains the list of nodes that may
  537. connect to the jobtracker. If the value is empty, all hosts are
  538. permitted.</td>
  539. </tr>
  540. <tr>
  541. <td><a name="mapred.hosts.exclude">mapred.hosts.exclude</a></td><td></td><td>Names a file that contains the list of hosts that
  542. should be excluded by the jobtracker. If the value is empty, no
  543. hosts are excluded.</td>
  544. </tr>
  545. <tr>
  546. <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
  547. after which new tasks of that job aren't assigned to it.
  548. </td>
  549. </tr>
  550. <tr>
  551. <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
  552. to the console of the JobClient.
  553. The permissible options are: NONE, KILLED, FAILED, SUCCEEDED and
  554. ALL.
  555. </td>
  556. </tr>
  557. <tr>
  558. <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
  559. active or not.
  560. </td>
  561. </tr>
  562. <tr>
  563. <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.
  564. The job status information will be available after it drops of the memory
  565. queue and between jobtracker restarts. With a zero value the job status
  566. information is not persisted at all in DFS.
  567. </td>
  568. </tr>
  569. <tr>
  570. <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
  571. in a file system to be available after it drops of the memory queue and
  572. between jobtracker restarts.
  573. </td>
  574. </tr>
  575. <tr>
  576. <td><a name="mapred.task.profile">mapred.task.profile</a></td><td>false</td><td>To set whether the system should collect profiler
  577. information for some of the tasks in this job? The information is stored
  578. in the the user log directory. The value is "true" if task profiling
  579. is enabled.</td>
  580. </tr>
  581. <tr>
  582. <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.
  583. mapred.task.profile has to be set to true for the value to be accounted.
  584. </td>
  585. </tr>
  586. <tr>
  587. <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.
  588. mapred.task.profile has to be set to true for the value to be accounted.
  589. </td>
  590. </tr>
  591. <tr>
  592. <td><a name="ipc.client.timeout">ipc.client.timeout</a></td><td>60000</td><td>Defines the timeout for IPC calls in milliseconds.</td>
  593. </tr>
  594. <tr>
  595. <td><a name="ipc.client.idlethreshold">ipc.client.idlethreshold</a></td><td>4000</td><td>Defines the threshold number of connections after which
  596. connections will be inspected for idleness.
  597. </td>
  598. </tr>
  599. <tr>
  600. <td><a name="ipc.client.maxidletime">ipc.client.maxidletime</a></td><td>120000</td><td>Defines the maximum idle time for a connected client after
  601. which it may be disconnected.
  602. </td>
  603. </tr>
  604. <tr>
  605. <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.
  606. </td>
  607. </tr>
  608. <tr>
  609. <td><a name="ipc.client.connection.maxidletime">ipc.client.connection.maxidletime</a></td><td>1000</td><td>The maximum time after which a client will bring down the
  610. connection to the server.
  611. </td>
  612. </tr>
  613. <tr>
  614. <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
  615. a server connection.
  616. </td>
  617. </tr>
  618. <tr>
  619. <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
  620. client connections.
  621. </td>
  622. </tr>
  623. <tr>
  624. <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
  625. the server. Setting to true disables the algorithm and may decrease latency
  626. with a cost of more/smaller packets.
  627. </td>
  628. </tr>
  629. <tr>
  630. <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
  631. the client. Setting to true disables the algorithm and may decrease latency
  632. with a cost of more/smaller packets.
  633. </td>
  634. </tr>
  635. <tr>
  636. <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
  637. notification URL </td>
  638. </tr>
  639. <tr>
  640. <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
  641. calls</td>
  642. </tr>
  643. <tr>
  644. <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
  645. actions, such as kill job, delete file, etc., that should
  646. not be exposed to public. Enable this option if the interfaces
  647. are only reachable by those who have the right authorization.
  648. </td>
  649. </tr>
  650. <tr>
  651. <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
  652. formatted as "package.FactoryClassName".
  653. </td>
  654. </tr>
  655. <tr>
  656. <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
  657. hadoop.rpc.socket.class.default. This socket factory is also used by
  658. DFSClient to create sockets to DataNodes.
  659. </td>
  660. </tr>
  661. <tr>
  662. <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
  663. (JobTracker). If null or empty, then use hadoop.rpc.socket.class.default.
  664. </td>
  665. </tr>
  666. <tr>
  667. <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
  668. SocksSocketFactory.
  669. </td>
  670. </tr>
  671. </table>
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