Thanks. Spent a lot of time looking at logs and nothing on the reducers until they start complaining about 'could not complete'.
Found this in the jobtracker log file: 2011-03-16 02:38:47,881 WARN org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient: DFSOutputStream ResponseProcessor exception for block blk_3829493505250917008_9959810java.io.IOException: Bad response 1 for block blk_3829493505250917008_9959810 from datanode 10.120.41.103:50010 at org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream$ResponseProcessor.run(DFSClient.java:2454) 2011-03-16 02:38:47,881 WARN org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient: Error Recovery for block blk_3829493505250917008_9959810 bad datanode[2] 10.120.41.103:50010 2011-03-16 02:38:47,881 WARN org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient: Error Recovery for block blk_3829493505250917008_9959810 in pipeline 10.120.41.105:50010, 10.120.41.102:50010, 10.120.41.103:50010: bad datanode 10.120.41.103:50010 2011-03-16 02:38:53,133 INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient: Could not complete file /var/hadoop/tmp/2_20110316_pmta_pipe_2_20_50351_2503122/_logs/history/hadnn01.atlis1_1299879680612_job_201103111641_0312_deliv_2_20110316_pmta_pipe*2_20110316_%5B%281%2F3%29+...QUEUED_T retrying... Looking at the logs from the various times this happens, the 'from datanode' in the first message is any of the data nodes (roughly equal in # of times it fails), so I don't think it is one specific node having problems. Any other ideas? Thanks, Chris On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 3:45 AM, icebergs <hkm...@gmail.com> wrote: > You should check the bad reducers' logs carefully.There may be more > information about it. > > 2011/3/10 Chris Curtin <curtin.ch...@gmail.com> > > > Hi, > > > > The last couple of days we have been seeing 10's of thousands of these > > errors in the logs: > > > > INFO org.apache.hadoop.hdfs.DFSClient: Could not complete file > > > > > /offline/working/3/aat/_temporary/_attempt_201103100812_0024_r_000003_0/4129371_172307245/part-00003 > > retrying... > > When this is going on the reducer in question is always the last reducer > in > > a job. > > > > Sometimes the reducer recovers. Sometimes hadoop kills that reducer, runs > > another and it succeeds. Sometimes hadoop kills the reducer and the new > one > > also fails, so it gets killed and the cluster goes into a loop of > > kill/launch/kill. > > > > At first we thought it was related to the size of the data being > evaluated > > (4+GB), but we've seen it several times today on < 100 MB > > > > Searching here or online doesn't show a lot about what this error means > and > > how to fix it. > > > > We are running 0.20.2, r911707 > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Chris > > >