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Siddharth Seth commented on TEZ-3718:
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bq. Not specifically related to bad node handling, but we could also improve
fetch failure handling by taking the upstream task runtime into account when
deciding how to handle failures. Does it really make sense to retry fetching
for minutes when the upstream task can regenerate the data in a few seconds?
I believe MapReduce may already have this factored into it's retry handling.
Definitely makes sense to get something like this in as well.
In terms of the 'bad' indication, AMNode does track failures on a node. Again,
the reason is not really known. The AM has a lot of information on what is
going on in the cluster - transfer rate per node, execution rate per node,
shuffle failures etc. It should, in theory, be able to make much better calls.
Don't think we've every gotten around to getting all of this connected together
in the AM though.
> Better handling of 'bad' nodes
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>
> Key: TEZ-3718
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TEZ-3718
> Project: Apache Tez
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Siddharth Seth
>
> At the moment, the default behaviour in case of a node being marked bad is to
> do nothing other than not schedule new tasks on this node.
> The alternate, via config, is to retroactively kill every task which ran on
> the node, which causes far too many unnecessary re-runs.
> Proposing the following changes.
> 1. KILL fragments which are currently in the RUNNING state (instead of
> relying on a timeout which leads to the attempt being marked as FAILED after
> the timeout interval.
> 2. Keep track of these failed nodes, and use this as input to the failure
> heuristics. Normally source tasks require multiple consumers to report
> failure for them to be marked as bad. If a single consumer reports failure
> against a source which ran on a bad node, consider it bad and re-schedule
> immediately. (Otherwise failures can take a while to propagate, and jobs get
> a lot slower).
> [~jlowe] - think you've looked at this in the past. Any thoughts/suggestions.
> What I'm seeing is retroactive failures taking a long time to apply, and
> restart sources which ran on a bad node. Also running tasks being counted as
> FAILURES instead of KILLS.
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