Chapter 3. Detecting System Bottlenecks
How do you know whether your Hadoop MapReduce job is performing its work optimally? One of the most common performance-related requests we receive in our consulting practice is to find out why a specific job took a long time to execute, and to troubleshoot bottleneck incidents.
In Chapter 1, Understanding Hadoop MapReduce, and Chapter 2, An Overview of the Hadoop Parameters, we learned about factors that may impact Hadoop MapReduce performance and Hadoop MapReduce common parameters' settings. In this chapter, we will continue our journey and learn how to detect potential system bottlenecks.
This chapter presents the performance tuning process, the importance of creating a baseline before any tuning job, and ...
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