HOD Should Be Less Restrictive Over Options Passed To Resource Manager ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-8081 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-8081 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Wish Components: contrib/hod Affects Versions: 1.0.0, 0.21.0 Reporter: Ben Smithers Priority: Minor At present, HOD requires any extra options passed to the resource manager to be of the form <option>:<sub-option>=<value> This is quite restrictive. Considering Torque and qsub, this effectively limits the options to a subset of the resource constraints, variable lists and additional attributes. Potentially desirable attributes that cannot (to the best of my knowledge) be expressed: - Mailing options. Given than it may take some time for a long-running HOD job to be scheduled, it would be useful to exploit the options (-m and -M) for notifying users - Other resource constraints, such as particular nodes or number of processors per node. The format required by qsub(http://www.clusterresources.com/torquedocs/2.1jobsubmission.shtml#nodeExamples) is incompatible with the format required by HOD. In practice, it would probably be desirable to have these options specified via the command line as these may change per HOD job I imagine some thought would be needed to balance flexibility whist not breaking the options HOD sets by default. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira