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Devaraj Das commented on HADOOP-1158:
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Yes, the reduce/fetcher should try a few times (it could be configurable?) 
before complaining to the JobTracker. The JobTracker can take a decision on 
whether to reexecute a Map based on the % of complaints (>50% ?) from fetching 
reduces. For example, if there are 10 reduces currently fetching, and if at 
least 5 of them complained about a fetch failing for a particular Map, then the 
JobTracker should reexecute that Map. Makes sense?

> JobTracker should collect statistics of failed map output fetches, and take 
> decisions to reexecute map tasks and/or restart the (possibly faulty) Jetty 
> server on the TaskTracker
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>                 Key: HADOOP-1158
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1158
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: mapred
>    Affects Versions: 0.12.2
>            Reporter: Devaraj Das
>
> The JobTracker should keep a track (with feedback from Reducers) of how many 
> times a fetch for a particular map output failed. If this exceeds a certain 
> threshold, then that map should be declared as lost, and should be reexecuted 
> elsewhere. Based on the number of such complaints from Reducers, the 
> JobTracker can blacklist the TaskTracker. This will make the framework 
> reliable - it will take care of (faulty) TaskTrackers that sometimes always 
> fail to serve up map outputs (for which exceptions are not properly 
> raised/handled, for e.g., if the exception/problem happens in the Jetty 
> server).

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