Are you running jps under the same user id that the hadoop processes are running under?
Bill On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Raymond Jennings III < raymondj...@yahoo.com> wrote: > After running hadoop for some period of time, the command 'jps' fails to > report any hadoop process on any node in the cluster. The processes are > still running as can be seen with 'ps -ef|grep java' > > In addition, scripts like stop-dfs.sh and stop-mapred.sh no longer find the > processes to stop. > > > >