On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 11:46 -0700, Doug Cutting wrote:
> Rod Taylor wrote:
> > The machine the namenode is running on does have very high load at
> > times. Do you recommend a separate box for the namenode and jobtracker
> > which runs strictly those items?
> 
> That would be optimal, but it shouldn't be required.  If a tasktracker 
> or datanode is sluggish then its impact is small, but if the jobtracker 
> or namenode become sluggish the impact is systemic.  That said, so long 

Machine ordered. Thanks.

> >>What's in the jobtracker logs around this time?  Did it report this 
> >>tasktracker as lost?
> > 
> > The jobtracker did not indicate such a thing (via an exception anyway).
> > Tasktracker connections seem to be established and disconnected from
> > fairly frequently. Perhaps this is what you mean?
> 
> No, there's a "lost tracker" message when the jobtracker times out a 
> tasktracker.  These are bad, since the jobtracker then assumes that all 
> of the temporary map data at that tasktracker is gone, and re-schedules 
> those map tasks.

Ahh. I recall seeing those in the past when tasktrackers actually were
dying (you fixed that bug). No, this type of action was not taking
place.

-- 
Rod Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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