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Gautam Kowshik commented on HADOOP-5949:
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To add, the job I was running took 1hrs, 22mins, 13sec to fail even though the
each map fails immediately, within 2-3 minutes
> JobTracker should give preference to failed tasks over virgin tasks so as to
> terminate the job ASAP if it is eventually going to fail.
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> Key: HADOOP-5949
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5949
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: mapred
> Reporter: Gautam Kowshik
> Assignee: Devaraj Das
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> Case in point... I have 1585 maps and 160 slots (40 nodes). The job is such
> that all maps fail within 2-3 minutes. The job takes forever to realise that
> the job is bad. It took 2526 failures for it to reach 4 failed attempts for a
> task.
> As I understand, currently the JT prefers a failed task if and only if a task
> tracker with a split replica for that map came asking for a task. In fact
> there may not be a single TT at all in the mapred cluster which has a replica
> for the splits used in this job (pre-0.20). This delays the job failure by a
> lot and hence degrades cluster utilization as a whole. If i'm on a shared
> cluster with many jobs waiting on it to fail, it's bad.
> The JT should prefer a failed task a lot earlier than waiting for a data
> local TT to come around asking.
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