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What is a container in YARN?

What is a container in YARN? Is it same as the child JVM in which the tasks on the nodemanager run or is it different?

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rahul Avatar asked Jan 16 '13 18:01

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It represents a resource (memory) on a single node at a given cluster.
A container is

  • supervised by the node manager
  • scheduled by the resource manager

One MR task runs in such container(s).

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Lorand Bendig Avatar answered Sep 28 '22 02:09

Lorand Bendig


There can be multiple containers on a single Node (or a single very big one).

Every node in the system is considered to be composed of multiple containers of minimum size of memory (say 512MB or 1 GB). The ApplicationMaster can request any container as a multiple of the minimum memory size.

Source, see section ResourceManager/Resource Model.

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alien01 Avatar answered Sep 28 '22 00:09

alien01