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Sreekanth Ramakrishnan updated HADOOP-6106: ------------------------------------------- Attachment: mapred-211-common-3.patch Attaching Shell timeout feature patch. > Provide an option in ShellCommandExecutor to timeout commands that do not > complete within a certain amount of time. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-6106 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6106 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: util > Reporter: Hemanth Yamijala > Assignee: Sreekanth Ramakrishnan > Attachments: mapred-211-common-3.patch > > > In MAPREDUCE-211 we came across a need to provide an option to timeout > commands launched via the ShellCommandExecutor. The use case is for the > health check script being developed in MAPREDUCE-211. We would like the > TaskTracker thread to not be blocked by a problematic script or in instances > where fork()+exec() has hung (which apparently has been observed in large > clusters). -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.