Has anyone experienced a TaskTracker/DataNode behaving like the attached image?
This was during a MR job (which runs often). Note the extremely high System CPU time. Upon investigating I saw that out of 64GB ram the system had allocated almost 45GB to cache! I did a sudo sh -c "sync ; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_cache ; sync" which is roughly where the graph goes back to normal (much lower System, much higher User). This has happened a few times. I have tried playing with the sysctl vm.swappiness value (default of 60) by setting it to 30 (which it was at when the graph was collected) and now to 10. I am not sure that helps. Any ideas? Anyone else run into this before? 24 cores 64GB ram 4x2TB sata3 hdd Running Hadoop 1.0.4, with a DataNode (2gb heap), TaskTracker (2gb heap) on this machine. 24 map slots (1gb heap each), no reducers. Also running HBase 0.94.2 with a RS (8gb ram) on this machine.
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