James, http://pastebin.com/mYBRKDew
Tomorrow I'll run the balancer again and grab a copy of the namenode logs as well. Didn't think of that today. -Landy -----Original Message----- From: jameswarr...@gmail.com [mailto:jameswarr...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of James Warren Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 7:49 PM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Balancer exiting immediately despite having work to do. Hi Landy - Attachments are stripped from e-mails sent to the mailing list. Could you publish your logs on pastebin and forward the url? cheers, -James On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Bible, Landy <landy-bi...@utulsa.edu>wrote: > Hi all,**** > > ** ** > > I'm running Hadoop 0.20.2. The balancer has suddenly stopped working. > I'm attempting to balance the cluster with a threshold of 1, using the > following command:**** > > ** ** > > ./hadoop balancer -threshold 1**** > > ** ** > > This has been working fine, but suddenly it isn't. It skips though 5 > iterations without actually doing any work:**** > > ** ** > > Time Stamp Iteration# Bytes Already Moved Bytes Left To > Move Bytes Being Moved**** > > Jan 4, 2012 11:47:56 AM 0 0 KB 1.87 > GB 6.68 GB**** > > Jan 4, 2012 11:47:56 AM 1 0 KB 1.87 > GB 6.68 GB**** > > Jan 4, 2012 11:47:56 AM 2 0 KB 1.87 > GB 6.68 GB**** > > Jan 4, 2012 11:47:57 AM 3 0 KB 1.87 > GB 6.68 GB**** > > Jan 4, 2012 11:47:57 AM 4 0 KB 1.87 > GB 6.68 GB**** > > No block has been moved for 5 iterations. Exiting...**** > > Balancing took 524.0 milliseconds**** > > ** ** > > I've attached the full log, but I can't see any errors indicating why > it is failing. Any ideas? I'd really like to get balancing working again. > My use case isn't the norm, and it is important that the cluster stay > as close to completely balanced as possible.**** > > ** ** > > --**** > > Landy Bible**** > > ** ** > > Simulation and Computer Specialist**** > > School of Nursing - Collins College of Business**** > > The University of Tulsa**** > > ** ** >
