You can kill job using the command bin/hadoop job -kill <jobid>. You need not shutdown the cluster.
Thanks, Amareshwari. Jim the Standing Bear wrote:
What is the best way to kill a bad job (e.g. an infinite loop)? The job I was running went into an infinite loop and I had to stop it with ctrl-c on the master node. Then I used bin/stop-all.sh hoping to stop the entire hadoop system... But that didn't work. I had to manually log into every node and use kill -9 to terminate all these java processes. There's gotta be a better way of doing this - I cannot imagine doing this for a 1000 node cluster... Can someone enlighten me please. Thanks. -- Jim
