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Rajesh Balamohan commented on MAPREDUCE-1354: --------------------------------------------- Plz ignore the previous comment. Had a discussion with Hemanth and will try out synchronized(jobs) on trunk. > Refactor JobTracker.submitJob to not lock the JobTracker during the HDFS > accesses > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-1354 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1354 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Bug > Components: jobtracker > Reporter: Devaraj Das > Assignee: Arun C Murthy > Priority: Critical > Attachments: MAPREDUCE-1354_yhadoop20.patch, > MAPREDUCE-1354_yhadoop20.patch, MAPREDUCE-1354_yhadoop20.patch, > MAPREDUCE-1354_yhadoop20.patch, MAPREDUCE-1354_yhadoop20.patch, > MAPREDUCE-1354_yhadoop20.patch > > > It'd be nice to have the JobTracker object not be locked while accessing the > HDFS for reading the jobconf file and while writing the jobinfo file in the > submitJob method. We should see if we can avoid taking the lock altogether. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.