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Arun C Murthy resolved HADOOP-1895. ----------------------------------- Resolution: Invalid The OOM Exceptions were due to a configuration mistake of specifying mapred.child.java.opts in mapred-default.xml (post HADOOP-785), once fixed the sort benchmarks didn't exhibit this behaviour. > sort fails with OutOfMemoryExceptions > ------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-1895 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1895 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: Bug > Components: mapred > Reporter: Gautam Kowshik > Assignee: Arun C Murthy > > sort100 > > > > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at > > java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:2786) at > > java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.write(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:94) at > > java.io.DataOutputStream.write(DataOutputStream.java:90) at > > org.apache.hadoop.io.BytesWritable.write(BytesWritable.java:137) at > > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.collect(MapTa > > sk.java:349) > > at > > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.lib.IdentityMapper.map(IdentityMapper > > .java:40) > > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.run(MapRunner.java:50) at > > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:192) at > > org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$Child.main(TaskTracker.java:1785) > > -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.