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Joydeep Sen Sarma updated MAPREDUCE-2062:
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    Environment: hadoop-20 with HADOOP-2141

> speculative execution is too aggressive under certain conditions
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>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-2062
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2062
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: jobtracker
>         Environment: hadoop-20 with HADOOP-2141
>            Reporter: Joydeep Sen Sarma
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> The function canBeSpeculated has subtle bugs that cause too much speculation 
> in certain cases.
> - it compares the current progress of the task with the last observed mean of 
> all the tasks. if only one task is in question - then the progress rate 
> decays as time progresses (in the absence of updates) and std-dev is zero. So 
> a job with a single reducer or mapper is almost always speculated.
> - is only a single task has reported progress - then the stddev is zero. so 
> other tasks may be speculated aggressively.
> - several tasks take a while to report progress initially. they seem to get 
> speculated as soon as speculative-lag is over. the lag should be configurable 
> at the minimum.

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