[jira] [Created] (MAPREDUCE-2709) Test case to ensure ReflectionUtils.setConf configures the target object only once

Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce Issue Type: Test Components: test Reporter: Sudharsan Sampath -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

Building hadoop

Hi, I am getting the following error while attempting to run ant build in eclipse. I am connecting to internet thru proxy and then configured the ANT_OPTS with the proxy settings. Can someone guide me how should I resolve this. Buildfile:

Re-Scheduling of a failed task

Hi, I am facing an issue that one of my map tasks fail in a map only job and its not rescheduled and the job hangs indefinitely. Could someone throw in a starter on where the logic to reschedule the failed tasks happen. Thanks Sudharsan S

Api for Job History

Hi, Is there any api to analyse the list of jobs in the history? Thanks Sudharsan S

RE: Automatic (Re)Scheduling

Hi, One way is to trigger a parent job that just reports a status every n minutes within the timeout threshold, and to trigger the required job that does the work from inside that, on need basis. One downside is that you would be wasting a processing slot but this should not bother much.

Clarification on DelegatingInputFormat

Hi, Could anyone clarify why a copy of JobConf is made in the method getSplits(JobConf conf, int numSplits in the DelegatingInputFormat class? To my understanding it looked like it was setting only the mapred.input.dirs property for the job. So why not use the passed in conf. Are there any