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Amareshwari Sriramadasu edited comment on HADOOP-2141 at 6/12/09 3:42 AM: -------------------------------------------------------------------------- one minor comment: Initialization for stats can be done inline. And comments to the stats, describing what the stats are for, can be added. Otherwise, Changes look fine to me. was (Author: amareshwari): one minor comment: Initialization for stats can be done inline. And comments to the stats, describing what the stats are for, can be added. > speculative execution start up condition based on completion time > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-2141 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2141 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: mapred > Affects Versions: 0.21.0 > Reporter: Koji Noguchi > Assignee: Andy Konwinski > Fix For: 0.21.0 > > Attachments: 2141.4.patch, 2141.5.patch, 2141.6.patch, 2141.patch, > HADOOP-2141-v2.patch, HADOOP-2141-v3.patch, HADOOP-2141-v4.patch, > HADOOP-2141-v5.patch, HADOOP-2141-v6.patch, HADOOP-2141.patch, > HADOOP-2141.v7.patch, HADOOP-2141.v8.patch > > > We had one job with speculative execution hang. > 4 reduce tasks were stuck with 95% completion because of a bad disk. > Devaraj pointed out > bq . One of the conditions that must be met for launching a speculative > instance of a task is that it must be at least 20% behind the average > progress, and this is not true here. > It would be nice if speculative execution also starts up when tasks stop > making progress. > Devaraj suggested > bq. Maybe, we should introduce a condition for average completion time for > tasks in the speculative execution check. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.