I believe that kill-task simple kills the task, but then the same process (i.e. "task") starts, with a new id.
Jay Vyas MMSB UCHC On Jul 20, 2012, at 6:23 PM, "Bejoy KS" <bejoy.had...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Jay > > Did you try > hadoop job -kill-task <task-id> ? And is that not working as desired? > > Regards > Bejoy KS > > Sent from handheld, please excuse typos. > > -----Original Message----- > From: jay vyas <jayunit...@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:17:58 > To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org<common-user@hadoop.apache.org> > Reply-To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org > Subject: fail and kill all tasks without killing job. > > Hi guys : I want my tasks to end/fail, but I don't want to kill my > entire hadoop job. > > I have a hadoop job that runs 5 hadoop jobs in a row. > Im on the last of those sub-jobs, and want to fail all tasks so that the > task tracker stops delegating them, > and the hadoop main job can naturally come to a close. > > However, when I run "hadoop job kill-attempt / fail-attempt ....", the > jobtracker seems to simply relaunch > the same tasks with new ids. > > How can I tell the jobtracker to give up on redelegating? >
