Setting Up Queues

The ResourceManager uses the configuration file capacity-scheduler.xml, where you can configure various scheduling parameters related to queues. These parameters include:

• the short queue name
• the full queue path name
• a list of associated child queues and applications
• the guaranteed capacity (expressed as a percentage of total resources in the cluster) available to the jobs in the queue
• the maximum capacity of the queue
• a list of active users and their resource allocation limits
• the state of the queue (running or stopped)
• access control lists that determine who can access the queue

The CapacityScheduler has a pre-defined queue called root. All queues in the system are children of the root queue. Further queues can be set up by configuring yarn.scheduler.capacity.root.queues with a list of comma-separated child queues.