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Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli commented on HADOOP-3581:
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[Update]
 - Just verified that cygwin supports proc file system exactly as on linux, so 
the same code should work there too.
 - Also tested process-groups and signal handling to process-groups on cygwin, 
works exactly as expected. Given that process-groups are supported there too, 
and thus is fairly portable(assuming it works right away on Solaris and Mac), 
we could think of moving task creation to be done via job-control.

> Prevent memory intensive user tasks from taking down nodes
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-3581
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3581
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: mapred
>            Reporter: Hemanth Yamijala
>            Assignee: Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
>         Attachments: patch_3581_0.1.txt
>
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> Sometimes user Map/Reduce applications can get extremely memory intensive, 
> maybe due to some inadvertent bugs in the user code, or the amount of data 
> processed. When this happens, the user tasks start to interfere with the 
> proper execution of other processes on the node, including other Hadoop 
> daemons like the DataNode and TaskTracker. Thus, the node would become 
> unusable for any Hadoop tasks. There should be a way to prevent such tasks 
> from bringing down the node.

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