On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Jon Lederman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thanks. Will try that. One final question, based on the jstack output I > sent, is it obvious that the system is blocked due to the behavior of > /dev/random? I tried to send you a highlighted markup of your jstack output. The key thing to look for is some thread reading bytes that nests from SecureRandom. > If I just let the FS command run (i.e., hadoop fs -ls), is there any > guarantee it will eventually return in some relatively finite period of time > such as hours, or could it potentially take days, weeks, years or eternity? > > It depends on how quiet your machine is. If it has stuff happening, then it will unwedge eventually.
