YARN-471

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Hello @StanislavJ ,

The Linux kernel parameter, vm.swappiness, is a value from 0-100 that controls the swapping of application data (as anonymous pages) from physical memory to virtual memory on disk. The higher the value, the more aggressively inactive processes are swapped out from physical memory. The lower the value, the less they are swapped, forcing filesystem buffers to be emptied.

On most systems, vm.swappiness is set to 60 by default. This is not suitable for Hadoop clusters because processes are sometimes swapped even when enough memory is available. This can cause lengthy garbage collection pauses for important system daemons, affecting stability and performance.

Cloudera recommends that you set vm.swappiness to a value between 1 and 10, preferably 1, for minimum swapping on systems where the RHEL kernel is 2.6.32-642.el6 or higher.

To view your current setting for vm.swappiness, run:

#cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

To set vm.swappiness to 1, run:

#sudo sysctl -w vm.swappiness=1

Also, To give an overview, swapping alerts are generated in Cloudera Manager when host swapping or role process swap usage exceeds a defined threshold.

The warning threshold of "500 MiB" will mean that any swap usage beyond this on a given host will generate an alert and critical if set to any would generate an alert even if a small amount of swapping occurs. The swap memory usage threshold value can be set at the "host" level or at the "process/service" level.

>> To set the threshold at the process level settings can be done as follows:

From CM UI >> Clusters >> yarn >> Configuration >> search for "Process Swap Memory Thresholds" >> (For resource manager) Warning and Critical >> Select Specify >> Specify value here (You can set the values in Bytes/KB/MB/GB) >> Save changes

You can increase the value and then further suggest you monitor the cluster for the swap usage and adjust the values accordingly.

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Thank you,

Babasaheb Jagtap

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