Apache Hadoop Yarn – Underutilization of cores

The problem lies not with yarn-site.xml or spark-defaults.conf but actually with the resource calculator that assigns the cores to the executors or in the case of MapReduce jobs, to the Mappers/Reducers. The default resource calculator i.e org.apache.hadoop.yarn.util.resource.DefaultResourceCalculator uses only memory information for allocating containers and CPU scheduling is not enabled by default. To use both … Read more

Using ResourceManager

There’s surprisingly simple way of reading resource by string: ResourceNamespace.ResxFileName.ResourceManager.GetString(“ResourceKey”) It’s clean and elegant solution for reading resources by keys where “dot notation” cannot be used (for instance when resource key is persisted in the database).

Could not find any resources appropriate for the specified culture or the neutral culture

I just hit this same exception in a WPF project. The issue occurred within an assembly that we recently moved to another namespace (ProblemAssembly.Support to ProblemAssembly.Controls). The exception was happening when trying to access resources from a second resource file that exists in the assembly. Turns out the additional resource file did not properly move … Read more