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Ning Zhang updated HDFS-767:
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Attachment: HDFS-767.patch
HDFS-767.patch contains the following changes:
1) code change in DFSClient.java to add random backoff discussed in this JIRA.
2) add unit test in TestDFSClientRetries to test effectiveness and performance
of different parameters settings.
> Job failure due to BlockMissingException
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> Key: HDFS-767
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-767
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Ning Zhang
> Attachments: HDFS-767.patch
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> If a block is request by too many mappers/reducers (say, 3000) at the same
> time, a BlockMissingException is thrown because it exceeds the upper limit (I
> think 256 by default) of number of threads accessing the same block at the
> same time. The DFSClient wil catch that exception and retry 3 times after
> waiting for 3 seconds. Since the wait time is a fixed value, a lot of clients
> will retry at about the same time and a large portion of them get another
> failure. After 3 retries, there are about 256*4 = 1024 clients got the block.
> If the number of clients are more than that, the job will fail.
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