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Subroto Sanyal commented on MAPREDUCE-2324: ------------------------------------------- Hi Todd, Murthy, Robert The issue targets to fix the problem in case of Reducer. As per fix that is committed, I can see the check for *ResourceEstimator.getEstimatedReduceInputSize* is removed from *findNewReduceTask* I have the following questions for the fix committed: * How about the same problem occurring in case of Mappers? * Say for example only one TaskTracker is having low disk space, as per the fix we go ahead and assign the Reduce task to it; which ends up in failure. So one failure which could have been reduced by the check. Regards, Subroto Sanyal > Job should fail if a reduce task can't be scheduled anywhere > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > 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 > > Attachments: MR-2324-disable-check-v2.patch, 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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira