Fair Scheduler preemption triggers NPE when tasks are scheduled but not running -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: MAPREDUCE-1089 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1089 Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce Issue Type: Bug Components: contrib/fair-share Affects Versions: 0.21.0 Reporter: Todd Lipcon Assignee: Todd Lipcon We see exceptions like this when preemption runs when a task has been scheduled on a TT but has not yet started running. 2009-10-09 14:30:53,989 INFO org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FairScheduler: Should preempt 2 MAP tasks for job_200910091420_0006: tasksDueToMinShare = 2, tasksDueToFairShare = 0 2009-10-09 14:30:54,036 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FairScheduler: Exception in fair scheduler UpdateThread java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FairScheduler$2.compare(FairScheduler.java:1015) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FairScheduler$2.compare(FairScheduler.java:1013) at java.util.Arrays.mergeSort(Arrays.java:1270) at java.util.Arrays.sort(Arrays.java:1210) at java.util.Collections.sort(Collections.java:159) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FairScheduler.preemptTasks(FairScheduler.java:1013) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FairScheduler.preemptTasksIfNecessary(FairScheduler.java:911) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.FairScheduler$UpdateThread.run(FairScheduler.java:286) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.