So, I don't need to notify about STARTING? But I should inform RUNNING,
FINISHED, and FAILED?


On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:54 PM, Benjamin Mahler
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Why is your executor "failing"? When you say failing, is your executor
> crashing or simply exiting after doing the required work?
>
> You will need to manage the task status lifecycle. If your executor is
> holding non-terminal tasks and it exits, the slave will report these tasks
> as LOST since it does not know whether the tasks were run to completion.
> Your executor will at the very least need to report when things are
> FINISHED or FAILED.
>
> It's also good practice to report once things are RUNNING to keep your
> scheduler well informed.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Ben
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 11:35 AM, David Greenberg <[email protected]
> >wrote:
>
> > I'm working on porting my executor from the CommandExecutor to a custom
> > executor, in order to take advantage of other features of Mesos. I
> started
> > by changing the TaskInfo in the scheduler to define ExecutorInfo instead
> of
> > CommandInfo, where the ExecutorInfo's command is the same as the original
> > CommandInfo. I gave the executor a random ID.
> >
> > I can see that the executor successfully starts and seems to connect to
> > Mesos. After a few moments (10s - 100s of ms), the executor fails with
> the
> > LOST status.
> >
> > Am I responsible for explicitly managing the TaskState lifecycle of the
> > executor? That is, do I need to immediately send the TASK_STARTING status
> > update, and then send the TASK_RUNNING update once the task has begun?
> Are
> > there any heartbeats that I'm responsible for?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > David
> >
>

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