Hi everyone, I have a problem about Hadoop startup.
I failed to startup the namenode and I got the following exception in the namenode log file: 2008-10-23 21:54:51,223 INFO org.mortbay.http.SocketListener: Started SocketListener on 0.0.0.0:50070 2008-10-23 21:54:51,224 INFO org.mortbay.util.Container: Started [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-10-23 21:54:51,224 INFO org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSNamesystem: Web-server up at: 0.0.0.0:50070 2008-10-23 21:54:51,224 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server: IPC Server Responder: starting 2008-10-23 21:54:51,226 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server: IPC Server listener on 58310: starting 2008-10-23 21:54:51,227 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server: IPC Server handler 0 on 58310: starting 2008-10-23 21:54:51,227 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server: IPC Server handler 1 on 58310: starting 2008-10-23 21:54:51,227 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server: IPC Server handler 2 on 58310: starting 2008-10-23 21:54:51,227 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server: IPC Server handler 3 on 58310: starting 2008-10-23 21:54:51,228 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server: IPC Server handler 4 on 58310: starting 2008-10-23 21:54:51,232 INFO org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server: IPC Server handler 5 on 58310: starting 2008-10-23 21:54:51,232 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread at java.lang.Thread.start0(Native Method) at java.lang.Thread.start(Thread.java:597) at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server.start(Server.java:991) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.initialize(NameNode.java:149) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:193) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.<init>(NameNode.java:179) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.createNameNode(NameNode.java:830) at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.main(NameNode.java:839) How can I fix it? Does it mean that my machine doesn't have enough memory for Hadoop startup? Any help will be appreciated! Thanks in advance. - Woody