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Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-3863:
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I filed HADOOP-3874 to address this. (We should file bugs whenever unrelated
tests fail, no?)
> Use a thread-local rather than static ENCODER/DECODER variables in Text for
> synchronization
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>
> Key: HADOOP-3863
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3863
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: mapred
> Affects Versions: 0.18.0
> Reporter: Arun C Murthy
> Assignee: Arun C Murthy
> Priority: Critical
> Fix For: 0.19.0
>
> Attachments: HADOOP-3863_0_20080730.patch,
> HADOOP-3863_1_20080730.patch
>
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> Text.{ENCODER|DECODER} are static variables which need to be synchronized in
> Text.{read|write}String; given that lots of RPC code calls
> Text.{read|write}String the contention for this lock shows up very
> significantly on large clusters.
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