How to Change the priority of Hadoop Jobs (Hive,MapReduce,pig)?

Hadoop provides a command line utility for changing the priority of running job. There are total 5 different priority level are there. These priority levels are listed below:

VERY_HIGH
HIGH
NORMAL
LOW
VERY_LOW

We can change the priority of the running hadoop job syntax is shown below:

 hadoop job -set-priority <job-id> <priority>  

Example:

 hadoop job -set-priority job_20170111540_64444 VERY_HIGH  

From the names of the priority levels, it is quite obvious that highest priority is given to the jobs whose priority level is VERY_HIGH and least priority is given to the jobs whose priority level is VERY_LOW.

Priority in Map Reduce Program:

In order to set priority for a job on Hadoop 1 cluster, you can use the following example:

 -> SET mapred.job.priority=<priority_value>;  

In order to set priority for a job on Hadoop 2 cluster, you can use the following example:

 -> SET mapreduce.job.priority=<priority_value>;  

Priority in Pig Program:

The below property is used to set the job priority is Pig Programming.

 grunt> SET job.priority 'high'  

The following <priority_value> values are supported:
very_low, low, normal, high, very_high

Priority for Hive Query:

In order to set priority for a HIVE query on Hadoop 1 cluster, you can use the following example:

 hive> SET mapred.job.priority=VERY_HIGH;  

In order to set priority for a HIVE query on Hadoop 2 cluster, you can use the following example:

 hive> SET mapreduce.job.priority=VERY_HIGH;  

If you are facing any problems in changing the priority of the hadoop jobs, then please comment here.