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Joydeep Sen Sarma updated HADOOP-2670:
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Summary: doDF frequently brings task down due to lack of memory (was: doDF
frequently brings process down due to lack of memory)
> doDF frequently brings task down due to lack of memory
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>
> Key: HADOOP-2670
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2670
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: dfs
> Affects Versions: 0.14.4
> Reporter: Joydeep Sen Sarma
>
> we are running with -Xmx 1024M. Every once in a while, we see tasks failing
> because of:
> java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: Cannot allocate memory
> at java.lang.UNIXProcess.(UNIXProcess.java:148)
> at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:65)
> at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:451)
> at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:591)
> at java.lang.Runtime.exec(Runtime.java:464)
> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.DF.doDF(DF.java:60)
> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.DF.getAvailable(DF.java:99)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalDirAllocator$AllocatorPerContext.getLocalPathForWrite(LocalDirAllocator.java:259)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalDirAllocator$AllocatorPerContext.createTmpFileForWrite(LocalDirAllocator.java:289)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalDirAllocator.createTmpFileForWrite(LocalDirAllocator.java:155)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream.newBackupFile(DFSClient.java:1475)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream.openBackupStream(DFSClient.java:1442)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream.writeChunk(DFSClient.java:1600)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSOutputSummer.writeChecksumChunk(FSOutputSummer.java:140)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSOutputSummer.flushBuffer(FSOutputSummer.java:122)
> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSOutputSummer.write1(FSOutputSummer.java:112)
> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSOutputSummer.write(FSOutputSummer.java:86)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream$PositionCache.write(FSDataOutputStream.java:39)
> at java.io.DataOutputStream.write(DataOutputStream.java:90)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Writer.append(SequenceFile.java:822)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.SequenceFileOutputFormat$1.write(SequenceFileOutputFormat.java:69)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask$2.collect(ReduceTask.java:304)
> at
> com.facebook.hive.streaming.HiveJoin$JoinReduce.reduce(HiveJoin.java:546)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask.run(ReduceTask.java:322)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskTracker$Child.main(TaskTracker.java:1743)
> when the task re-runs - it succeeds. it seems like that this is an edge case
> where the garbage collector needs to be run before trying to spawn external
> process. (going to try it out). any other ideas?
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