Hadoop Yarn container configuration (CPU, Memory...) - hadoop

I've just setup a new Hadoop cluster with Hadoop 2.2.0 and running the MapReduce job on HBase based on Yarn framework.
I have a problem of the configuration of containers. In general, we have 8 nodes, half of which are old machines with 8 cores CPU and half of which are new machines with 24 cores CPU. I wonder if it's possible to configure separately with more containers in new machines and less in old machines. With actual setting, the number of containers are limited to 8 which means 1 core per container at least. Even though, I have resources left in new machines, it's not allocated to more containers in new machines. We use the fair scheduler.
Thanks

In the configuration file yarn-site.xml, there is a property named yarn.nodemanager.resource.cpu-vcores which defines the CPU cores of the node. As I set this value differently of the old and the new machines, more containers are running in new nodes.
I again answer my own question :)

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Why is the Hadoop job slower in cloud (with multi-node clustering) than on normal pc?

I am using cloud Dataproc as a cloud service for my research. Running Hadoop and spark job on this platform(cloud) is a bit slower than that of running the same job on a lower capacity virtual machine. I am running my Hadoop job on 3-node cluster(each with 7.5gb RAM and 50GB disk) on the cloud which took 4min49sec, while the same job took 3min20sec on the single node virtual machine(my pc) having 3gb RAM and 27GB disk. Why is the result slower in the cloud with multi-node clustering than on normal pc?
First of all:
not easy to answer without knowing the complete configuration and the type of job your running.
possible reasons are:
missconfiguration
http://HOSTNAME:8080
open ressourcemanager webapp and compare available vcores and memory
job type
Job adds more overhead when running parallelized so that it is slower
hardware
Selected virtual Hardware is slower than the local one. Thourgh low disk io and network overhead
I would say it is something like 1. and 2.
For more detailed answer let me know:
size and type of the job and how you run it.
hadoop configuration
cloud architecture
br
to be a bit more detailed here the numbers/facts which are interesting to find out the reason for the "slower" cloud environment:
job type &size:
size of data 1mb or 1TB
xml , parquet ....
what kind of process (e.g wordcount, format change, ml,....)
and of course the options (executors and drivers ) for your spark-submit or spark-shell
Hadoop Configuration:
do you use a distribution (hortonworks or cloudera?)
spark standalone or in yarn mode
how are nodemangers configured

Calculating yarn.nodemanager.resource.cpu-vcores for a yarn cluster with multiple spark clients

If I have 3 spark applications all using the same yarn cluster, how should I set
yarn.nodemanager.resource.cpu-vcores
in each of the 3 yarn-site.xml?
(each spark application is required to have it's own yarn-site.xml on the classpath)
Does this value even matter in the client yarn-site.xml's ?
If it does:
Let's say the cluster has 16 cores.
Should the value in each yarn-site.xml be 5 (for a total of 15 to leave 1 core for system processes) ? Or should I set each one to 15 ?
(Note: Cloudera indicates one core should be left for system processes here: http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2015/03/how-to-tune-your-apache-spark-jobs-part-2/ however, they do not go into details of using multiple clients against the same cluster)
Assume Spark is running with yarn as the master, and running in cluster mode.
Are you talking about the server-side configuration for each YARN Node Manager? If so, it would typically be configured to be a little less than the number of CPU cores (or virtual cores if you have hyperthreading) on each node in the cluster. So if you have 4 nodes with 4 cores each, you could dedicate for example 3 per node to the YARN node manager and your cluster would have a total of 12 virtual CPUs.
Then you request the desired resources when submitting the Spark job (see http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/submitting-applications.html for example) to the cluster and YARN will attempt to fulfill that request. If it can't be fulfilled, your Spark job (or application) will be queued up or there will eventually be a timeout.
You can configure different resource pools in YARN to guarantee a specific amount of memory/CPU resources to such a pool, but that's a little bit more advanced.
If you submit your Spark application in cluster mode, you have to consider that the Spark driver will run on a cluster node and not your local machine (that one that submitted it). Therefore it will require at least 1 virtual CPU more.
Hope that clarifies things a little for you.

How to allocate physical resources for a big data cluster?

I have three servers and I want to deploy Spark Standalone Cluster or Spark on Yarn Cluster on that servers.
Now I have some questions about how to allocate physical resources for a big data cluster. For example, i want to know whether i can deploy Spark Master Process and Spark Worker Process on the same node. Why?
Server Details:
CPU Cores: 24
Memory: 128GB
I need your help. Thanks.
Of course you can, just put host with Master in slaves. On my test server I have such configuration, master machine is also worker node and there is one worker-only node. Everything is ok
However be aware, that is worker will fail and cause major problem (i.e. system restart), then you will have problem, because also master will be afected.
Edit:
Some more info after question edit :) If you are using YARN (as suggested), you can use Dynamic Resource Allocation. Here are some slides about it and here article from MapR. It a very long topic how to configure memory properly for given case, I think that these resources will give you much knowledge about it
BTW. If you have already intalled Hadoop Cluster, maybe try YARN mode ;) But it's out of topic of question

Optimal settings for apache spark based on the hardware

is there a mapping/translation for the number of hardware systems, cpu cores and their associated memory to the spark-submit tunables of:
executor-memory
executor-cores
num-executors
The application is certaionly bound to have something to do with these tunables, I am however looking for a "basic rule of thumb"
Apache spark is running on yarn with hdfs in cluster mode.
Not all the hardware systems in the spark/hadoop yarn cluster have the same number of cpu cores or RAM.
There is no thumb rule, but after considering
off heap memory
Number of applications and other hadoop dameons running
Resource manager needs
HDFS IO
etc.
You can derive a suitable configuration. Please check this url

Mismatch in no of Executors(Spark in YARN Pseudo distributed mode)

I am running Spark using YARN(Hadoop 2.6) as cluster manager. YARN is running in Pseudo distributed mode. I have started the spark shell with 6 executors and was expecting the same
spark-shell --master yarn --num-executors 6
But whereas in the Spark Web UI, I see only 4 executors
Any reason for this?
PS : I ran the nproc command in my Ubuntu(14.04) and give below is the result. I believe this mean, my system has 8 cores
mountain#mountain:~$ nproc
8
did you take in account spark.yarn.executor.memoryOverhead?
possobly it creates hiden memory requrement and finaly yarn could not provide whole resources.
also, note that yarn round container size to yarn.scheduler.increment-allocation-mb.
all detail here:
http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2015/03/how-to-tune-your-apache-spark-jobs-part-2/
This happens when there are not enough resources on your cluster to start more executors. Following things are taken into account
Spark executor runs inside a yarn container. This container size is determined from the value of yarn.scheduler.minimum-allocation-mb in yarn-site.xml. Check this property. If your existing containers consume all available memory then more memory will not be available for new containers. so no new executors will be started
The storage memory column in the UI displays the amount of memory used for execution and RDD storage. By default, this equals (HEAP_SPACE - 300MB) * 75%. The rest of the memory is used for internal metadata, user data structures and other stuffs. ref(Spark on YARN: Less executor memory than set via spark-submit)
I hope this helps.

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