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Arun C Murthy commented on MAPREDUCE-2324:
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On second thoughts, since ResourceEstimator.getEstimatedReduceInputSize is
broken (as of now), one option is to not use it for comparing against available
space on TT. Should we just disable that check?
> Job should fail if a reduce task can't be scheduled anywhere
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>
> Key: MAPREDUCE-2324
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2324
> Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 0.20.2, 0.20.205.0
> Reporter: Todd Lipcon
> Assignee: Robert Joseph Evans
> Fix For: 0.20.205.0
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> Attachments: MR-2324-security-v1.txt, MR-2324-security-v2.txt,
> MR-2324-security-v3.patch, MR-2324-secutiry-just-log-v1.patch
>
>
> If there's a reduce task that needs more disk space than is available on any
> mapred.local.dir in the cluster, that task will stay pending forever. For
> example, we produced this in a QA cluster by accidentally running terasort
> with one reducer - since no mapred.local.dir had 1T free, the job remained in
> pending state for several days. The reason for the "stuck" task wasn't clear
> from a user perspective until we looked at the JT logs.
> Probably better to just fail the job if a reduce task goes through all TTs
> and finds that there isn't enough space.
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