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Devaraj Das commented on HADOOP-2141:
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>From the performance point of view, actually it might make sense to keep the 
>sorted list of candidates around (as Andy had mentioned in point (J) in the 
>recent comment). Also, the method isSlowTracker needn't compute whether the 
>tracker is slow every time per a job. It should be okay to to do it once every 
>2-3 minutes. The assumption is that tasktrackers shouldn't become slow 
>suddenly and that's probably a reasonable assumption..


> speculative execution start up condition based on completion time
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-2141
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2141
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: mapred
>    Affects Versions: 0.19.0
>            Reporter: Koji Noguchi
>            Assignee: Andy Konwinski
>         Attachments: 2141.patch, HADOOP-2141-v2.patch, HADOOP-2141-v3.patch, 
> HADOOP-2141-v4.patch, HADOOP-2141.patch
>
>
> We had one job with speculative execution hang.
> 4 reduce tasks were stuck with 95% completion because of a bad disk. 
> Devaraj pointed out 
> bq . One of the conditions that must be met for launching a speculative 
> instance of a task is that it must be at least 20% behind the average 
> progress, and this is not true here.
> It would be nice if speculative execution also starts up when tasks stop 
> making progress.
> Devaraj suggested 
> bq. Maybe, we should introduce a condition for average completion time for 
> tasks in the speculative execution check. 

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