Sometime JobTracker holds stale refrence of JobInProgress. ----------------------------------------------------------
Key: MAPREDUCE-1540 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1540 Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce Issue Type: Bug Components: jobtracker Affects Versions: 0.20.2 Reporter: Karam Singh Ran random writer, sort and sort validate job. Checked the jmap -histo:live and verified that there is no reference of JobInProgress after Jobs are retired Now submitter around 77 sleeps of around 10000 maps. then after 1 hr killed all the job when jobs got retired. again checked jmap -histo:live for JobInProgress for JT process found 2 references were there. Found this while doing snaity testing of 1316 -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.