You need the mapper/reducer memory set, not the MAHOUT_HEAP, I think:

mapred.map.child.java.opts

needs to have something like "-Xmx3g" or the like in it.

How many terms (vocabulary size) and topics are you running over?

  -jake


On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Mohammed Al khooja <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm running Mahout LDA on a cluster but I'm getting the java out of memory
> exception (below).  How do I increase the MAHOUT_HEAP variable in
> bin\mahout.sh ?  When I add the line MAHOUT_HEAP=2000 it doesn't seem to
> change !  Do I have to reload or rebuild anything so that changes take
> effect ?
>
>
> thanks.
>
> 2011-11-15 16:59:39,697 INFO org.apache.hadoop.util.NativeCodeLoader:
> Loaded the native-hadoop library
> 2011-11-15 16:59:39,836 INFO org.apache.hadoop.metrics.jvm.JvmMetrics:
> Initializing JVM Metrics with processName=MAP, sessionId=
> 2011-11-15 16:59:39,888 WARN org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration:
>
> /scratch1/hadoop/mapred/local/taskTracker/mkhooja/jobcache/job_201110181830_3456/job.xml:a
> attempt to override final parameter: dfs.data.dir; Ignoring.
> 2011-11-15 16:59:39,956 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask: io.sort.mb =
> 100
> 2011-11-15 16:59:40,001 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask: data buffer
> = 79691776/99614720
> 2011-11-15 16:59:40,001 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask: record
> buffer = 262144/327680
> 2011-11-15 16:59:48,863 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskLogsTruncater:
> Initializing logs' truncater with mapRetainSize=-1 and reduceRetainSize=-1
> 2011-11-15 16:59:48,866 FATAL org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child: Error running
> child : java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
> at org.apache.mahout.math.DenseMatrix.<init>(DenseMatrix.java:51)
> at
>
> org.apache.mahout.clustering.lda.LDAInference.createPhiMatrix(LDAInference.java:154)
> at
> org.apache.mahout.clustering.lda.LDAInference.infer(LDAInference.java:93)
> at org.apache.mahout.clustering.lda.LDAMapper.map(LDAMapper.java:48)
> at org.apache.mahout.clustering.lda.LDAMapper.map(LDAMapper.java:36)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Mapper.run(Mapper.java:144)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runNewMapper(MapTask.java:647)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:323)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child$4.run(Child.java:270)
> 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:1127)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:264)
>
> --
>
> M.khouja
>

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