I ran into the same issue. I've created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TWILL-181.
-Martin On 04/29/2016 05:54 PM, Terence Yim wrote: > Hi Sam, > > You are right, currently Twill will keep retrying. Would you mind open a JIRA > for the improvement request? Thanks > > Terence > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Apr 29, 2016, at 1:21 PM, Sam William <sampri...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> Im using Twill to run a batch job on a Yarn cluster. The container gets >> killed sometimes because the memory requested was not enough. I see that >> twill keeps retrying infinitely. Is there a way I can ask the framework >> not to retry ? Looking at the code, I see this >> >> in RunningContainers >> >> if (shouldRetry(exitStatus)) { >> LOG.info("Re-request the container {} for exit code {}.", containerId, >> exitStatus); >> restartRunnables.add(lookup.keySet().iterator().next()); >> } >> >> Depending on the exit status, we might be restating the containers again and >> again. >> >> >> Sam