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Updated: (HADOOP-1565) DFSScalability: reduce memory usage of namenode
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2007-07-31 02:58:53
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dhruba borthakur updated HADOOP-1565:
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    Attachment:     (was: memoryReduction.patch)

> DFSScalability: reduce memory usage of namenode
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-1565
>                 URL: htt
ps://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1565
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: dhruba borthakur
>            Assignee: dhruba borthakur
>         Attachments: memoryReduction2.patch
>
>
> Experiments have demonstrated that a single file/block
needs about 300 to 500 bytes of main memory on a 64-bit
Namenode. This puts some limitations on the size of the file
system that a single namenode can support. Most of this
overhead occurs because a block and/or filename is inserted
into multiple TreeMaps and/or HashSets.
> Here are a few ideas that can be measured to see if an
appreciable reduction of memory usage occurs:
> 1. Change FSDirectory.children from a TreeMap to an
array. Do binary search in this array while looking up
children. This saves a TreeMap object for every intermediate
node in the directory tree.
> 2. Change INode from an inner class. This saves on one
"parent object" reference for each INODE instance.
4 bytes per inode.
> 3. Keep all DatanodeDescriptors in an array.
BlocksMap.nodes[] is currently a 64-bit reference to the
DatanodeDescriptor object. Instead, it can be a 'short'.
This will probably save about 16 bytes per block.
> 4. Change DatanodeDescriptor.blocks from a
SortedTreeMap to a HashMap? Block report processing CPU cost
can increase.
> For the records: TreeMap has the following fields:
> 	Object key;
> 	Object value;
> 	Entry left = null;
> 	Entry right = null;
> 	Entry parent;
> 	boolean color = BLACK;
> and HashMap object:
> 	final Object key;
> 	Object value;
> 	final int hash;
> 	Entry next;

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