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ZhuGuanyin commented on MAPREDUCE-1247:
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The out-of-band heartbeat thread (or we could call it the true heartbeat 
thread) only send tasktracker's name to jobtracker, and the jobtracker just 
update it's last seen time, we could add a new interface to 
InterTrackerProtocol, so it doesn't add  a lot of confusion or complexity. 



> Send out-of-band heartbeat to avoid fake lost tasktracker
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>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-1247
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1247
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: ZhuGuanyin
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> Currently the TaskTracker report task status to jobtracker through heartbeat, 
> sometimes if the tasktracker  lock the tasktracker to do some cleanup  job, 
> like remove task temp data on disk, the heartbeat thread would hang for a 
> long time while waiting for the lock, so the jobtracker just thought it had 
> lost and would reschedule all its finished maps or un finished reduce on 
> other tasktrackers, we call it "fake lost tasktracker", some times it doesn't 
> acceptable especially when we run some large jobs.  So We introduce a 
> out-of-band heartbeat mechanism to send an out-of-band heartbeat in that case.

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