Number of cores in Hadoop cluster

Recently while working for one of the customer we had issues with number of cores shown in the cluster was 2 per each node.

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo

Whereas the processor of the system was Intel Xeon E5620 , it should have 4 cores and 8 threads.

After analysis we found that the number of cores were wrongly shown as apci was turned off in all the nodes

/etc/grub.conf

Changing apci=ht in all 12 nodes

Made Redhat to detect all the threads in the system since it was stopped earlier.

This made the Hadoop cluster to perform like anything , it processed lot lot better and customer was happy. Not sure who was at fault , why this was off earlier. I found it and we fixed it that’s the happy part.

How do you handle your installations so that you avoid such kids of errors?

Just after that I modified the Hadoop map tasks and reduce tasks . The first performance tuning step which we all do


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