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John Meagher commented on HDFS-148:
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It looks like this was fixed for HDFS-278
> timeout when writing dfs file causes infinite loop when closing the file
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>
> Key: HDFS-148
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-148
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 0.20.2
> Reporter: Nigel Daley
> Assignee: Sameer Paranjpye
> Priority: Critical
>
> If, when writing to a dfs file, I get a timeout exception:
> 06/11/29 11:16:05 WARN fs.DFSClient: Error while writing.
> java.net.SocketTimeoutException: timed out waiting for rpc response
> at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.Client.call(Client.java:469)
> at org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RPC$Invoker.invoke(RPC.java:164)
> at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.$Proxy0.reportWrittenBlock(Unknown Source)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream.internalClose(DFSClient.java:1220)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream.endBlock(DFSClient.java:1175)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream.flush(DFSClient.java:1121)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.dfs.DFSClient$DFSOutputStream.write(DFSClient.java:1103)
> at org.apache.hadoop.examples.NNBench2.createWrite(NNBench2.java:107)
> at org.apache.hadoop.examples.NNBench2.main(NNBench2.java:247)
> then the close() operation on the file appears to go into an infinite loop of
> retrying:
> 06/11/29 13:11:19 INFO fs.DFSClient: Could not complete file, retrying...
> 06/11/29 13:11:20 INFO fs.DFSClient: Could not complete file, retrying...
> 06/11/29 13:11:21 INFO fs.DFSClient: Could not complete file, retrying...
> 06/11/29 13:11:23 INFO fs.DFSClient: Could not complete file, retrying...
> 06/11/29 13:11:24 INFO fs.DFSClient: Could not complete file, retrying...
> ...
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