On Feb 9, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Ashish Thusoo wrote:

Hi Hadoop users,



We have intermittently hit issues with speculative execution and hadoop
streaming where we see a directory of the form

_task_200...._...._m_..._.


It's an unfortunate side-effect of the current implementation of speculative execution, we have been discussing ways to fix it here:

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2391

In the meanwhile, it is completely safe to ignore directories starting with with underscore ("_") and use the rest...

Arun



formed in the output directory. Has anyone out there hit similar issues
or knows what might be happening here? We did scan the JIRA but could
not find any related issues reported there.



Thanks,

Ashish




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