Thanks Markus, But as I said, I have only read access on the nodes and I can't make that change. So the question open.
Marek M. ________________________________________ From: Markus Jelsma [markus.jel...@openindex.io] Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 9:06 PM To: mapreduce-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: RE: location of Java heap dumps -XX:HeapDumpPath=/path/to/heap.dump -----Original message----- > From:Marek Miglinski <mmiglin...@seven.com> > Sent: Wed 18-Jul-2012 19:51 > To: mapreduce-user@hadoop.apache.org > Subject: location of Java heap dumps > > Hi all, > > I have a setting of -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError on all nodes and I don't > have permissions to add location where those dumps will be saved, so I get a > message in my mapred process: > > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space > Dumping heap to java_pid10687.hprof ... > Heap dump file created [1385031743 bytes in 30.259 secs] > > Where do I locate those dumps? Cause I can't find them anywhere. > > > Thanks, > Marek M. >