https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-Yarn-distributes-containers-on-nodemanagers-while/m-p/229931#M191784 <P><A href="https://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hadoop-yarn-concepts-and-applications/" target="_blank">https://hortonworks.com/blog/apache-hadoop-yarn-concepts-and-applications/</A></P><P>Above link has good overview of how YARN works and the algorithms used ( capacity and fair scheduler ) by Resource manager for scheduling.</P><P>Yarn capacity scheduler config tutorial is available at <A href="https://hortonworks.com/hadoop-tutorial/configuring-yarn-capacity-scheduler-ambari/" target="_blank">https://hortonworks.com/hadoop-tutorial/configuring-yarn-capacity-scheduler-ambari/</A> </P><P>Does this help?</P> Tue, 29 Aug 2017 15:47:42 GMT SunilS 2017-08-29T15:47:42Z