Scott, after re-reading your original email, I'm thinking maybe we didn't have the same problem. Hive crashed for us when it ran out of file descriptors, it didn't hang. Nonetheless, an upgrade may help.
On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Scott Whitecross <swhitecr...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks Dave. We've been investigating moving to .6, and this may help > make the decision easier. > > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Dave Brondsema <dbronds...@geek.net>wrote: > >> We had that problem on 0.4 also. 0.6 seems to be working better now, but >> we only switched a day or two ago. See >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-1181 and >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-hive-user/201001.mbox/%3cd35d2f55-d770-422d-b418-6bee212a6...@forward.co.uk%3e >> >> >> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Scott Whitecross >> <swhitecr...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> Hi all - >>> >>> I'm running the Hive Server to allow multiple JDBC queries and inserts >>> over the course of a day. What I've noticed is that there seems to be a >>> pretty bad leak with connections over the course of a week, to the point of >>> making the machine unreachable. Looking through the code being used, it >>> appears to be closing Hive connections appropriately. Is there a known >>> problem with Hive and connections now? (I'm currently running Hive .4). >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Dave Brondsema >> Software Engineer >> Geeknet >> >> www.geek.net >> > > -- Dave Brondsema Software Engineer Geeknet www.geek.net
