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Christian Kunz commented on HADOOP-2247: ---------------------------------------- Talked to Arun and agreed to move it to 0.16.0 > Mappers fail easily due to repeated failures > -------------------------------------------- > > 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 > Assignee: Amar Kamat > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 0.16.0 > > Attachments: HADOOP-2220.patch, HADOOP-2220.patch, HADOOP-2220.patch > > > 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. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.