Is ther a relation between HADOOP_HEAPSIZE mapred.child.java.opts and
mapred.child.ulimit settings in hadoop-env.sh and mapred-site.xml i have a
sinngle machine with 2gb ram and running hadoop on psuedo distr mode my
HADOOP_HEAPSIZE is set to 256 wat shud i set mapred.child.java.opts and
mapred.child.ulimit and how these settings are calculated if my ram is
incresed or machine clusters are increased

coz i m getting Error occurred during initialization of VM hadoop
java.lang.Throwable: Child Error At org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskRunner.run
whe running a job.....:)

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Visioner Sadak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Is ther a relation between HADOOP_HEAPSIZE mapred.child.java.opts and
> mapred.child.ulimit settings in hadoop-env.sh and mapred-site.xml i have a
> sinngle machine with 2gb ram and running hadoop on psuedo distr mode my
> HADOOP_HEAPSIZE is set to 256 wat shud i set mapred.child.java.opts and
> mapred.child.ulimit and how these settings are calculated if my ram is
> incresed or machine clusters are increased

Hi Sadak

AFAIK HADOOP_HEAPSIZE determines the jvm size of the daemons like NN,JT,TT,DN etc.

 mapred.child.java.opts and mapred.child.ulimit is used to set the jvm heap for child jvms launched for each map/reduce task launched.

Regards
Bejoy KS

Sent from handheld, please excuse typos.

-----Original Message-----
From: Visioner Sadak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 13:47:24
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: hadoop memory settings

coz i m getting Error occurred during initialization of VM hadoop
java.lang.Throwable: Child Error At org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskRunner.run
whe running a job.....:)

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Visioner Sadak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:

> Is ther a relation between HADOOP_HEAPSIZE mapred.child.java.opts and
> mapred.child.ulimit settings in hadoop-env.sh and mapred-site.xml i have a
> sinngle machine with 2gb ram and running hadoop on psuedo distr mode my
> HADOOP_HEAPSIZE is set to 256 wat shud i set mapred.child.java.opts and
> mapred.child.ulimit and how these settings are calculated if my ram is
> incresed or machine clusters are increased