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Doug Cutting updated HADOOP-886: -------------------------------- Fix Version/s: 0.11.0 Status: Patch Available (was: Open) > thousands of TimerThreads created by metrics API > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HADOOP-886 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-886 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: Bug > Components: metrics > Affects Versions: 0.10.1 > Reporter: Nigel Daley > Assigned To: Nigel Daley > Fix For: 0.11.0 > > Attachments: 886.patch > > > When running the smallJobsBenchmark with 180 maps and hadoop metrics logging > to a file > (ie hadoop-metrics.properties file contains > dfs.class=org.apache.hadoop.metrics.file.FileContext > mapred.class=org.apache.hadoop.metrics.file.FileContext) > then I get this error: > org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException: java.io.IOException: > java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread > at java.lang.Thread.start0(Native Method) > at java.lang.Thread.start(Thread.java:574) > at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.getConnection(Client.java:517) > at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:452) > at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Invoker.invoke(RPC.java:164) > at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.$Proxy0.isDir(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DFSClient.isDirectory(DFSClient.java:325) > at > org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DistributedFileSystem.isDirectory(DistributedFileSystem.java:167) > at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.copy(FileUtil.java:82) > at > org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DistributedFileSystem.copyToLocalFile(DistributedFileSystem.java:222) > at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.copyToLocalFile(FileSystem.java:842) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobInProgress.<init>(JobInProgress.java:86) > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobTracker.submitJob(JobTracker.java:1338) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) > at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Server.call(RPC.java:337) > at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Server$Handler.run(Server.java:538) > at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client$Connection.run(Client.java:258) > Using jconsole, I see that 2000+ of these threads were created: > Name: Timer-101 > State: TIMED_WAITING on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Total blocked: 0 Total waited: 5 > Stack trace: > java.lang.Object.wait(Native Method) > java.util.TimerThread.mainLoop(Timer.java:509) > java.util.TimerThread.run(Timer.java:462) > The only use of the java.util.Timer API is in > org.apache.hadoop.metrics.spi.AbstractMetricsContext. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/Administrators.jspa - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira