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Arun C Murthy commented on HADOOP-654:
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Looks like Owen's nailed it for a decent first-cut which can be enhanced at a
later point for features like global error-rate, asking TT to shut-down etc.
I'll get on with the first-cut...
> jobs fail with some hardware/system failures on a small number of nodes
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> Key: HADOOP-654
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-654
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: mapred
> Affects Versions: 0.7.2
> Reporter: Yoram Arnon
> Assigned To: Arun C Murthy
> Priority: Minor
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> occasionally, such as when the OS is out of some resource, a node fails only
> partly. The node is up and running, the task tracker is running and sending
> heartbeats, but every task fails because the tasktracker can't fork tasks or
> something.
> In these cases, that task tracker keeps getting assigned tasks to execute,
> and they all fail.
> A couple of nodes like that and jobs start failing badly.
> The job tracker should avoid assigning tasks to tasktrackers that are
> misbehaving.
> simple approach: avoid tasktrackers that report many more failures than
> average (say 3X). Simply use the info sent by the TT.
> better but harder: track TT failures over time and:
> 1. avoid those that exhibit a high failure *rate*
> 2. tell them to shut down
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