I increased the heap size as you have suggested, and I could run a map reduce job on it.
thanks On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Amar Kamat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the heap size you are using for your tasks? Check > 'mapred.child.java.opts' in your hadoop-default.xml. Try increasing it. > This will happen if you try running the random-writer + sort examples with > default parameters. The maps are not able to spill the data to the disk. > Btw what version of HADOOP are you using? > Amar > On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, Ved Prakash > wrote: > > > Hi friends, > > > > I have made a cluster of 3 machines, one of them is master, and other 2 > > slaves. I executed a mapreduce job on master but after Map, the > execution > > terminates and Reduce doesn't happen. I have checked dfs and no output > > folder gets created. > > > > this is the error I see > > > > 08/03/10 10:35:21 INFO mapred.JobClient: Task Id : > > task_200803101001_0001_m_000064_0, Status : FAILED > > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space > > at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.write(ByteArrayOutputStream.java > > :95) > > at java.io.DataOutputStream.write(DataOutputStream.java:90) > > at org.apache.hadoop.io.Text.write(Text.java:243) > > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.collect( > > MapTask.java:347) > > at org.apache.hadoop.examples.WordCount$MapClass.map( > WordCount.java > > :72) > > at org.apache.hadoop.examples.WordCount$MapClass.map( > WordCount.java > > :59) > > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.run(MapRunner.java:50) > > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:192) > > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$Child.main( > TaskTracker.java > > :1787) > > > > 08/03/10 10:35:22 INFO mapred.JobClient: map 55% reduce 17% > > 08/03/10 10:35:31 INFO mapred.JobClient: map 56% reduce 17% > > 08/03/10 10:35:51 INFO mapred.JobClient: map 57% reduce 17% > > 08/03/10 10:36:04 INFO mapred.JobClient: map 58% reduce 17% > > 08/03/10 10:36:07 INFO mapred.JobClient: map 57% reduce 17% > > 08/03/10 10:36:07 INFO mapred.JobClient: Task Id : > > task_200803101001_0001_m_000071_0, Status : FAILED > > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space > > at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.write(ByteArrayOutputStream.java > > :95) > > at java.io.DataOutputStream.write(DataOutputStream.java:90) > > at org.apache.hadoop.io.Text.write(Text.java:243) > > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.collect( > > MapTask.java:347) > > at org.apache.hadoop.examples.WordCount$MapClass.map( > WordCount.java > > :72) > > at org.apache.hadoop.examples.WordCount$MapClass.map( > WordCount.java > > :59) > > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.run(MapRunner.java:50) > > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:192) > > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$Child.main( > TaskTracker.java > > :1787) > > > > though it tries to overcome this problem but the mapreduce application > > doesn't create output, can anyone tell me why is this happening? > > > > Thanks > > >