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How to set job-priority on a hadoop job

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I see that we can set job priority on a hadoop job. I have been trying to do it using the following command.

hadoop job -set-priority job-id VERY_LOW

It does not seem to be working.. after that I noticed the following http://archive.cloudera.com/cdh/3/hadoop/capacity_scheduler.html

says that the job-priority on a queue is disabled by default. I would like to enable it. Googleing is not help please suggest how to proceed my hadoop version is Hadoop 2.3.0-cdh5.1.0

posted Nov 3, 2014 by Arjuna

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