Hi, How about checking the value of mapreduce.map.java.opts? Are your JVMs launched with assumed heap memory?
On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Manu Zhang <owenzhang1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just confirmed the problem still existed even the "mapred-site.xml"s on all > nodes have the same configuration (mapreduce.map.memory.mb = 2560). > > Any more thoughts ? > > Thanks, > Manu > > > On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Manu Zhang <owenzhang1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks Ravi. >> >> I do have mapred-site.xml under /etc/hadoop/conf/ on those nodes but it >> sounds weird to me should they read configuration from those mapred-site.xml >> since it's the client who applies for the resource. I have another >> mapred-site.xml in the directory where I run my job. I suppose my job should >> read conf from that mapred-site.xml. Please correct me if I am mistaken. >> >> Also, not always the same nodes. The number of failures is random, too. >> >> Anyway, I will have my settings in all the nodes' mapred-site.xml and see >> if the problem goes away. >> >> Manu >> >> >> On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 1:40 AM, Ravi Prakash <ravi...@ymail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Manu! >>> >>> This should not be the case. All tasks should have the configuration >>> values you specified propagated to them. Are you sure your setup is correct? >>> Are they always the same nodes which run with 1024Mb? Perhaps you have >>> mapred-site.xml on those nodes? >>> >>> HTH >>> Ravi >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, October 22, 2013 9:09 PM, Manu Zhang >>> <owenzhang1...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've been running Terasort on Hadoop-2.0.4. >>> >>> Every time there is s a small number of Map failures (like 4 or 5) >>> because of container's running beyond virtual memory limit. >>> >>> I've set mapreduce.map.memory.mb to a safe value (like 2560MB) so most >>> TaskAttempt goes fine while the values of those failed maps are the default >>> 1024MB. >>> >>> My question is thus, why a small number of container's memory values are >>> set to default rather than that of user-configured ? >>> >>> Any thoughts ? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Manu Zhang >>> >>> >>> >> > -- - Tsuyoshi