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Published inMay 2017
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Aman Singh
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Gurmukh Singh is a seasoned technology professional with 14+ years of industry experience in infrastructure design, distributed systems, performance optimization, and networks. He has worked in big data domain for the last 5 years and provides consultancy and training on various technologies. He has worked with companies such as HP, JP Morgan, and Yahoo. He has authored Monitoring Hadoop by Packt Publishing
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YARN SLS


In this recipe, we will take a look at YARN simulator, which is useful to test and determine the load of YARN under various test conditions.

The YARN Scheduler Load Simulator (SLS) is such a tool, which can simulate large-scale YARN clusters and application loads in a single machine within a single JVM.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will need a single machine with Hadoop installed. For this, readers can refer to the first chapter, where we have covered a single node cluster setup.

How to do it...

  1. Connect to the master1.cyrus.com single node and switch as user hadoop.

  2. The SLS is located at $HADOOP_HOME/share/hadoop/tools/sls/.

  3. The SLS runs the simulator using the sls-runner.xml configuration file under $HADOOP_HOME/etc/hadoop.

  4. A sample file is located at $HADOOP_HOME/share/hadoop/tools/sls/sample-conf/sls-runner.xml.

  5. The sls-runner.xml file contains parameters to tune a number of threads, container memory, NM threads, and many other parameters or the choice of scheduler you want.

  6. The...

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Published in: May 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781787126732

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Aman Singh

Gurmukh Singh is a seasoned technology professional with 14+ years of industry experience in infrastructure design, distributed systems, performance optimization, and networks. He has worked in big data domain for the last 5 years and provides consultancy and training on various technologies. He has worked with companies such as HP, JP Morgan, and Yahoo. He has authored Monitoring Hadoop by Packt Publishing
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