Hi Chris The AM should send a stop container request to the ContainerManager to kill the container in question. This will trigger a kill event to the running container and eventually, when the AM talks to the RM, the killed container would be part of the completed containers list in allocate response.
-- Hitesh On Oct 25, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Chris Riccomini wrote: > Hey Guys, > > How exactly do you have an AM kill a container? > > I send an allocate() request with the container id in release, but it appears > that the RM doesn’t ACTUALLY release the container until the container stops. > I assume that there’s a way for the AM to to tell the RM to tell the NM to > kill the container, or that there’s a way for the container to get its > current state, and see if it’s been released so that it can shutdown > gracefully. > > How do I do this? > > Thanks! > Chris
