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Amareshwari Sri Ramadasu commented on HADOOP-2092: -------------------------------------------------- The attached patch adds background thread which pings the parent java map/reduce task every 30 seconds to check if it is alive. If parent is not alive, it kills the c++ process after three retries. Christian, Can you use this patch and let us know if you see improvement? > Pipes C++ task does not die even if the Java tasks die > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HADOOP-2092 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2092 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: Bug > Components: pipes > Reporter: Amareshwari Sri Ramadasu > Assignee: Amareshwari Sri Ramadasu > Fix For: 0.16.0 > > Attachments: patch-2092.txt > > > Pipes process does not die, when the java map task dies. > Pipes process does not die even when the cluster is down. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.