Martin, When you look at the task logs for the particular reducer that's stuck, what do you see? What kind of operations do you have going on in the script, possibly a GROUP ALL?
--jacob On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 12:44 -0300, Martin Z wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running a Pig script in local mode, and it finishes successfully. When I > use the same dataset and script to run pig in its distributed mode, it hangs > at 90% and the hadoop processes in the node machines takes almost all the > memory. It always hangs at the reduce task of the last job. > > The conf/mapred-site.xml is: > > <property> > <name>mapred.child.java.opts</name> > <value>-Xmx1000m</value> > </property> > <property> > <name>mapred.child.ulimit</name> > <value>4000000</value> > <final>true</final> > </property> > > Do you know how I can debug the processes to find out where the problem is? > > Thanks! >