In addition to below options, in the Hadoop-2.7(yet to release in couple of weeks) the user friendly option provided for killing the applications from Web UI.
In the application block , ‘Kill Application’ button has been provided for killing applications. Thanks & Regards Rohith Sharma K S From: Pradeep Gollakota [mailto:pradeep...@gmail.com] Sent: 12 April 2015 23:41 To: user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: How to stop a mapreduce job from terminal running on Hadoop Cluster? Also, mapred job -kill <job_id> On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Shahab Yunus <shahab.yu...@gmail.com<mailto:shahab.yu...@gmail.com>> wrote: You can kill t by using the following yarn command yarn application -kill <application id> https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.2.0/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-site/YarnCommands.html Or use old hadoop job command http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11458519/how-to-kill-hadoop-jobs Regards, Shahab On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Answer Agrawal <yrsna.tse...@gmail.com<mailto:yrsna.tse...@gmail.com>> wrote: To run a job we use the command $ hadoop jar example.jar inputpath outputpath If job is so time taken and we want to stop it in middle then which command is used? Or is there any other way to do that? Thanks,
