[ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-817?page=comments#action_12458930 ] Sanjay Dahiya commented on HADOOP-817: --------------------------------------
tracked it down to MergeQueue.merge(), after a couple of iterations of that loop it runs out of memory. > Streaming reducers throw OutOfMemory for not so large inputs > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HADOOP-817 > URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-817 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: Bug > Components: contrib/streaming > Reporter: Sanjay Dahiya > > I am seeing OutOfMemoryError for moderate size inputs (~70 text files, 20k > each ) causing job to fail in streaming. For very small inputs it still > succeeds. Looking into details. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
