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Devaraj Das commented on HADOOP-2247:
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I think the max backoff should be set to a high value for apps where a high
load on the cluster is expected. Apart from that, I think basing the decision
whether to kill a map should be based on just the ratio of failed fetches to
total number of fetches and the count of the number of failures.
> Mappers fail easily due to repeated failures
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> Key: HADOOP-2247
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2247
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 0.15.0
> Environment: 1400 Node hadoop cluster
> Reporter: Srikanth Kakani
> Priority: Blocker
> Fix For: 0.15.2
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> Related to HADOOP-2220, problem introduced in HADOOP-1158
> At this scale hardcoding the number of fetch failures to a static number: in
> this case 3 is never going to work. Although the jobs we are running are
> loading the systems 3 failures can randomly occur within the lifetime of a
> map. Even fetching the data can cause enough load for so many failures to
> occur.
> We believe that number of tasks and size of cluster should be taken into
> account. Based on which we believe that a ratio between total fetch attempts
> and total failed attempts should be taken into consideration.
> Given our experience with a task should be declared "Too many fetch failures"
> based on:
> failures > n /*could be 3*/ && (failures/total attempts) > k% /*could be
> 30-40%*/
> Basically the first factor is to give some headstart to the second factor,
> second factor then takes into account the cluster size and the task size.
> Additionally we could take recency into account, say failures and attempts in
> last one hour. We do not want to make it too small.
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