Re: Why is the task run in a child JVM?

[Torsten Curdt]

On 7/14/08, Jason Venner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

One benefit is that if your map or reduce behaves badly it can't  
take down
the task tracker.


As the tracker jvm could also be monitored (and restarted) from  
outside, the internal execution might still be worth looking into. At  
least to have the option. We had a patch ...but it's terrible out of  
date.

On the other hand starting up the second jvm is supposed to be much  
faster on 1.6 ....no idea if that's true though.

cheers
--
Torsten