An earlier reply at http://search-hadoop.com/m/e9dM3rw9IP1 may help you get over the idle task issue, if you're idle due to processing and not a real freeze.
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Radim Kolar <h...@sendmail.cz> wrote: > Any bright ideas? > > > call status update or Progress every 600 seconds or less -- Harsh J Customer Ops. Engineer, Cloudera