If a reducer failed at shuffling stage, the task should fail, not just logging an exception -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-4163 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4163 Project: Hadoop Core Issue Type: Bug Components: mapred Affects Versions: 0.17.1 Reporter: Runping Qi I saw a reducer stuck at the shuffling stage, with the following exception logged in the log file: 2008-08-30 00:16:23,265 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask: Map output copy failure: org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSError: java.io.IOException: No space left on device at org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem$LocalFSFileOutputStream.write(RawLocalFileSystem.java:199) at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flushBuffer(BufferedOutputStream.java:65) at java.io.BufferedOutputStream.flush(BufferedOutputStream.java:123) at java.io.FilterOutputStream.close(FilterOutputStream.java:140) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream$PositionCache.close(FSDataOutputStream.java:59) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream.close(FSDataOutputStream.java:79) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.ChecksumFileSystem$ChecksumFSOutputSummer.close(ChecksumFileSystem.java:332) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream$PositionCache.close(FSDataOutputStream.java:59) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream.close(FSDataOutputStream.java:79) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapOutputLocation.getFile(MapOutputLocation.java:185) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask$ReduceCopier$MapOutputCopier.copyOutput(ReduceTask.java:815) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask$ReduceCopier$MapOutputCopier.run(ReduceTask.java:764) Caused by: java.io.IOException: No space left on device at java.io.FileOutputStream.writeBytes(Native Method) at java.io.FileOutputStream.write(FileOutputStream.java:260) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem$LocalFSFileOutputStream.write(RawLocalFileSystem.java:197) ... 11 more 2008-08-30 00:16:23,320 WARN org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker: Error running child java.io.IOException: task_200808291851_0001_r_000023_0The reduce copier failed at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask.run(ReduceTask.java:329) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$Child.main(TaskTracker.java:2122) The task should have died. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.