Hi all,
We are using hadoop-0.17.2 for some time now. Since yesterday, We have been seeing jobTracker failing to respond with an OutOfMemory Error very frequently. Things are going fine after restarting it. But the problem is occurring after a while. Below is the exception that we are seeing in jobtracker logs. Can someone please suggest what is going wrong in this? 2008-11-19 14:17:46,059 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server: IPC Server handler 9 on 9001, call heartbeat([EMAIL PROTECTED], false, true, 16068) from 205.188.170.107:51492: error: java.io.IOException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space java.io.IOException: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:1452) at java.util.regex.Pattern.<init>(Pattern.java:1133) at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:847) at java.lang.String.replace(String.java:2208) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.normalizePath(Path.java:146) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.initialize(Path.java:137) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.<init>(Path.java:126) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path.<init>(Path.java:50) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Task.getTaskOutputPath(Task.java:214) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Task.setConf(Task.java:517) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskInProgress.getTaskToRun(TaskInProgress.java :745) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress.obtainNewMapTask(JobInProgress.ja va:664) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.getNewTaskForTaskTracker(JobTracker. java:1585) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.heartbeat(JobTracker.java:1309) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.jav a:39) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessor Impl.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:446) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:896) 2008-11-19 14:18:11,869 WARN org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server: IPC Server handler 4 on 9001, call heartbeat([EMAIL PROTECTED], false, true, 16077) f rom 205.188.170.84:54871: discarded for being too old (133957) 2008-11-19 14:18:11,869 WARN org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server: IPC Server handler 4 on 9001, call heartbeat([EMAIL PROTECTED], false, true, 16082) from 205.188.170.90:32934: discarded for being too old (133957) Thanks Pallavi