Hi,
I am doing some performance testing in HADOOP. But while testing, I faced a
situation. I need your help.

My HADOOP cluster :
6 Datanodes, 1 Namenode, 2 Clients.

Replication factor = 3

2 clients write a file(put operation) whose size is 2 x block size.
DFS.DATA.DIR in each Datanodes is equal and is same as block size. That
means each Datanodes stores a single block.

Now, if 2 clients simultaneously reads the file( get operation),
Will 2 clients read 2 blocks from different Datanodes ?
Or they will read from the same datanodes?

Does Namenode know which Datanode is busy and which one is idle?

What I am trying to find is that...
Is it possible to decrease the read time by increasing replication factor?

I have attached an image to better understand my question. Kindly take a
look. Thank you. And if possible please give references.

Hi,

Link [1] partly answers your question. Namenode chooses the "nearest"
data-node that can cater this request. So replication definitely helps, in
the sense that a replica might be placed on a node nearer to the client.
I'm not sure whether the namenode checks if a datanode is busy serving
other requests, So I'll leave that for others to answer.

[1] http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r0.20.2/hdfs_design.html#Replica+Selection

Thanks,
Bharath

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Dibyendu Karmakar
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Hi,
> I am doing some performance testing in HADOOP. But while testing, I faced
> a situation. I need your help.
>
> My HADOOP cluster :
> 6 Datanodes, 1 Namenode, 2 Clients.
>
> Replication factor = 3
>
> 2 clients write a file(put operation) whose size is 2 x block size.
> DFS.DATA.DIR in each Datanodes is equal and is same as block size. That
> means each Datanodes stores a single block.
>
> Now, if 2 clients simultaneously reads the file( get operation),
> Will 2 clients read 2 blocks from different Datanodes ?
> Or they will read from the same datanodes?
>
> Does Namenode know which Datanode is busy and which one is idle?
>
> What I am trying to find is that...
> Is it possible to decrease the read time by increasing replication factor?
>
> I have attached an image to better understand my question. Kindly take a
> look. Thank you. And if possible please give references.
>