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On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 2:39 PM, rishi pathak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>        Is there a way to drain a tasktracker. What we require is not to
> schedule any more map/red tasks onto a tasktracker(mark it offline) but
> still the running tasks should not be affected.

You could simply shut the TT down. MapReduce was designed with faults
in mind and thus tasks that are running on a particular TaskTracker
can be re-run elsewhere if they failed. Is this not usable in your
case?

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Harsh J
www.harshj.com

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