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Milind Bhandarkar commented on MAPREDUCE-257:
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I have seen this in one of our production clusters. The java task itself is 
killed due to memory limits, but there is a runaway task consuming lost of 
memory. So, I think killing the entire process tree did not work.

> Preventing node from swapping
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>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-257
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-257
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Hong Tang
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> When a node swaps, it slows everything: maps running on that node, reducers 
> fetching output from the node, and DFS clients reading from the DN. We should 
> just treat it the same way as if OS exhausts memory and kill some tasks to 
> free up memory.

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