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Vinod K V commented on HADOOP-4391: ----------------------------------- This can be addressed by introducing job control for tasks (HADOOP-2721). Without which, tracking and killing sub-processes becomes intractable. > When killing a streaming task, it should kill the sub processes (subtree) > spawned by the task > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-4391 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4391 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: Bug > Components: contrib/streaming > Reporter: Runping Qi > > Many times we saw sub processes left still running after a streaming task is > killed. > This is one kind of resource leakage. > The framework should kill the whole subprocess tree when killing a task. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.