https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/I-am-trying-to-set-hive-tez-container-size-but-it-is-not/m-p/162331#M49382 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:40:28 GMT abhishekchaudha 2016-12-19T21:40:28Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/I-am-trying-to-set-hive-tez-container-size-but-it-is-not/m-p/162331#M49382 Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:40:28 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/I-am-trying-to-set-hive-tez-container-size-but-it-is-not/m-p/162331#M49382 abhishekchaudha 2016-12-19T21:40:28Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/I-am-trying-to-set-hive-tez-container-size-but-it-is-not/m-p/162332#M49383 <P>what is yarn.scheduler.minimum-allocation-mb set to? in your case it looks yarn.scheduler.minimum-allocation-mb is set too high and you are trying to set hive.tez.container.size lower than this value. if this is the case then you will see your task container get launched with the yarn.scheduler.minimum-allocation-mb.</P><P>the best practice is to set hive.tez.container.size to be the same as or a small multiple (1 or 2 times that) of YARN container size yarn.scheduler.minimum-allocation-mb but never more than yarn.scheduler.maximum-allocation-mb. You want to have headroom for multiple containers to be spun up.</P> Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:45:04 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/I-am-trying-to-set-hive-tez-container-size-but-it-is-not/m-p/162332#M49383 rajkumar_singh 2016-12-19T21:45:04Z