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Arun C Murthy commented on HADOOP-2141:
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Do we know why the maps got stuck? 

I'm sure speculation will help, only question is whether that is the correct 
fix.

Don't get me wrong... I'm pretty sure this is an important feature!

> 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
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: mapred
>    Affects Versions: 0.15.0
>            Reporter: Koji Noguchi
>            Assignee: Arun C Murthy
>            Priority: Blocker
>             Fix For: 0.15.1
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> 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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