That generally means that the process that is running the task, crashed. The actual map/reduce task is run in a separate jvm by the task tracker, and that JVM is exiting abnormally. This used to happen to my jobs quite a bit when they were using a buggy native library via jni.
If you are trying to use the colorspace transforms via the java imaging APIs, it is not thread safe (at least through 1.6.10 under linux). There may be additional information available in the per task logs. 2009/8/3 Mathias De Maré <[email protected]> > I'm getting a rather cryptic error while running a Map job with > MultithreadedMapper (no idea if it has anything to do with the > MultithreadedMapper). > It only occurs sometimes, occurs at different times during the Map > (sometimes at the start, sometimes at a random location), and it doesn't > really give any information. > > Task Id : attempt_200908031207_0009_m_000000_0, Status : FAILED > java.io.IOException: Task process exit with nonzero status of 255. > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskRunner.run(TaskRunner.java:418) > > I'm a bit at a loss. The only results I'm finding from Google are a few > other people who have had the same problem, but nobody with a solution. > > Mathias De Maré > -- Pro Hadoop, a book to guide you from beginner to hadoop mastery, http://www.amazon.com/dp/1430219424?tag=jewlerymall www.prohadoopbook.com a community for Hadoop Professionals
