Re: Error: org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.task.reduce.Shuffle$ShuffleError Java Heap Space

[Eduard Skaley]

it was installed through the cloudera manager and we took the default 
value for the per reducer memory.

Hello,
I'm getting this Error through job execution:

16:20:26 INFO  [main]                     Job -  map 100% reduce 46%
16:20:27 INFO  [main]                     Job -  map 100% reduce 51%
16:20:29 INFO  [main]                     Job -  map 100% reduce 62%
16:20:30 INFO  [main]                     Job -  map 100% reduce 64%
16:20:32 INFO  [main]                     Job - Task Id : 
attempt_1351680008718_0018_r_000006_0, Status : FAILED
Error: org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.task.reduce.Shuffle$ShuffleError: 
error in shuffle in fetcher#2
    at 
org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.task.reduce.Shuffle.run(Shuffle.java:123)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask.run(ReduceTask.java:371)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild$2.run(YarnChild.java:152)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396)
    at 
org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1332)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild.main(YarnChild.java:147)
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
    at 
org.apache.hadoop.io.BoundedByteArrayOutputStream.<init>(BoundedByteArrayOutputStream.java:58)
    at 
org.apache.hadoop.io.BoundedByteArrayOutputStream.<init>(BoundedByteArrayOutputStream.java:45)
    at 
org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.task.reduce.MapOutput.<init>(MapOutput.java:97)
    at 
org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.task.reduce.MergeManager.unconditionalReserve(MergeManager.java:286)
    at 
org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.task.reduce.MergeManager.reserve(MergeManager.java:276)
    at 
org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.task.reduce.Fetcher.copyMapOutput(Fetcher.java:384)
    at 
org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.task.reduce.Fetcher.copyFromHost(Fetcher.java:319)
    at 
org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.task.reduce.Fetcher.run(Fetcher.java:179)

16:20:33 INFO  [main]                     Job -  map 100% reduce 65%
16:20:36 INFO  [main]                     Job -  map 100% reduce 67%
16:20:39 INFO  [main]                     Job -  map 100% reduce 69%
16:20:41 INFO  [main]                     Job -  map 100% reduce 70%
16:20:43 INFO  [main]                     Job -  map 100% reduce 71%

I have no clue what the issue could be for this. I googled this issue 
and checked several sources of possible solutions but nothing does fit.

I saw this jira entry which could fit: 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-4655.

Here somebody recommends to increase the value for the property 
dfs.datanode.max.xcievers / dfs.datanode.max.receiver.threads to 4096, 
but this is the value for our cluster.
http://yaseminavcular.blogspot.de/2011/04/common-hadoop-hdfs-exceptions-with.html

The issue with the to small input files doesn't fit I think, because 
the map phase reads 137 files with each 130MB. Block Size is 128MB.

The cluster uses version 2.0.0-cdh4.1.1, 
581959ba23e4af85afd8db98b7687662fe9c5f20.

Thx