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dhruba borthakur commented on HADOOP-6082: ------------------------------------------ Also, we might not need any changes to the decommissioning feature because when a node is decommissioned, currently running tasks are "killed" and not "failed", so they do increase the probability of a job failure. > Elegant decommission of lighty loaded tasktrackers from a map-reduce cluster > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-6082 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6082 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: mapred > Reporter: dhruba borthakur > Assignee: Namit Jain > > There is a need to elegantly move some machines from one map-reduce cluster > to another. This JIRA is to discuss how to find lightly loaded tasktrackers > that are candidates for decommissioning and then to elegantly decommission > them by waiting for existing tasks to finish. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.