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How to set replication factors for HDFS directories?

Is it possible to set the replication factor for specific directory in HDFS to be one that is different from the default replication factor? This should set the existing files’ replication factors but also new files created in the specific directory. This can simplify the administration. We can set the replication factor of /tmp/ to…

How to get logs of a specific time range on Linux?

The logs I am processing is Hadoop log (log4j). It is in format like: 2014-09-20 21:55:11,855 INFO org.apache.hadoop.nfs.nfs3.IdUserGroup: Updated user map size: 36 2014-09-20 21:55:11,863 INFO org.apache.hadoop.nfs.nfs3.IdUserGroup: Updated group map size: 55 2014-09-20 22:10:11,907 INFO org.apache.hadoop.nfs.nfs3.IdUserGroup: Update cache now 2014-09-20 22:10:11,907 INFO org.apache.hadoop.nfs.nfs3.IdUserGroup: Not doing static UID/GID mapping because ‘/etc/nfs.map’ does not exist. Now, I…

Hadoop 2 (YARN) default configuration values

Where to check the default Hadoop 2 (YARN) configuration values for: HDFS: hdfs-site.xml YARN: yarn-site.xml MapReduce: mapred-site.xml Default Hadoop 2 (YARN) configuration values for Hadoop 2.2.0 from Apache Hadoop website: HDFS: http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.2.0/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/hdfs-default.xml YARN: https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.2.0/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/yarn-default.xml MapReduce: https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.2.0/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-core/mapred-default.xml

Good introductions to Hadoop 2.0 (YARN)?

Which ones are recommended introductions to Hadoop 2.0 (YARN)? Pointers to webpages are good. Those are good ones that I find: The SoCC13 paper “Apache Hadoop YARN: Yet Another Resource Negotiator” by Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli et al.: http://www.socc2013.org/home/program/a5-vavilapalli.pdf The introduction from Hortonworks by Arun Murthy:http://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hadoop-yarn-concepts-and-applications/ The “Official” one from Apache Hadoop website (very brief):https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.2.0/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/YARN.html

Add header footer in directory listing in Apache (httpd)

How to add header footer in directory listing in Apache (httpd)? In the web directory’s .htaccess file: Options +Indexes IndexOptions FancyIndexing VersionSort NameWidth=* HTMLTable Charset=UTF-8 HeaderName /header.html ReadmeName /footer.html IndexIgnore header.html footer.html .htaccess header.html and footer.html are under the website root directory (not the Linux root).

Installing WordPress in a sub directory while working for the whole site

How to install WordPress in a sub directory while working for the whole site? Putting the WordPress files in the root directory seems messy. A method is introduced here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory The process to move WordPress into its own directory is as follows: Create the new location for the core WordPress files to be stored (we…

How to choose the number of mappers and reducers in Hadoop

How to choose the number of mappers and reducers in Hadoop to get good job performance? The Hadoop Wiki gives a discussion on this: http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowManyMapsAndReduces Some valuable points: About the number of Maps: The number of maps is usually driven by the number of DFS blocks in the input files. Although that causes people to…

SQL layers on NoSQL databases

What are the SQL layer solution over NoSQL databases such as key/value stores? Phoenix: A SQL layer on HBase: https://github.com/forcedotcom/phoenix They also show some performance results: https://github.com/forcedotcom/phoenix/wiki/Performance F1 – The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google’s Ad Business: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38125.html With F1, we have built a novel hybrid system that combines the scalability, fault tolerance, transparent sharding,…

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How to force a metadata checkpointing in HDFS

The metadata checkpointing in HDFS is done by the Secondary NameNode to merge the fsimage and the edits log files periodically and keep edits log size within a limit. For various reasons, the checkpointing by the Secondary NameNode may fail. For one example, HDFS SecondaraNameNode log shows errors in its log as follows. 2017-08-06 10:54:14,488…

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Hadoop Installation Tutorial (Hadoop 2.x)

Hadoop 2 or YARN is the new version of Hadoop. It adds the yarn resource manager in addition to the HDFS and MapReduce components. Hadoop MapReduce is a programming model and software framework for writing applications, which is an open-source variant of MapReduce designed and implemented by Google initially for processing and generating large data…

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Hadoop Installation Tutorial (Hadoop 1.x)

Update: If you are new to Hadoop and trying to install one. Please check the newer version: Hadoop Installation Tutorial (Hadoop 2.x). Hadoop mainly consists of two parts: Hadoop MapReduce and HDFS. Hadoop MapReduce is a programming model and software framework for writing applications, which is an open-source variant of MapReduce that is initially designed…

mrcc – A Distributed C Compiler System on MapReduce

The mrcc project’s homepage is here: mrcc project. Abstract mrcc is an open source compilation system that uses MapReduce to distribute C code compilation across the servers of the cloud computing platform. mrcc is built to use Hadoop by default, but it is easy to port it to other could computing platforms, such as MRlite,…