Ayush Saxena created HADOOP-17531: ------------------------------------- Summary: DistCp: Reduce memory usage on copying huge directories Key: HADOOP-17531 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-17531 Project: Hadoop Common Issue Type: Improvement Reporter: Ayush Saxena
Presently distCp, uses the producer-consumer kind of setup while building the listing, the input queue and output queue are both unbounded, thus the listStatus grows quite huge. Rel Code Part : https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/trunk/hadoop-tools/hadoop-distcp/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/tools/SimpleCopyListing.java#L635 This goes on bredth-first traversal kind of stuff, so if you have files at lower depth, it will like open up the entire tree.... -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: common-dev-unsubscr...@hadoop.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: common-dev-h...@hadoop.apache.org