Job History Server goes of OutOfMemory with 1200 Jobs and Heap Size set to 10 GB --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Key: MAPREDUCE-3057 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-3057 Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce Issue Type: Bug Components: jobhistoryserver, mrv2 Affects Versions: 0.23.0 Reporter: Karam Singh History server was started with -Xmx10000m Ran GridMix V3 with 1200 Jobs trace in STRESS mode on 350 nodes with each node 4 NMS. All jobs finished as reported by RM Web UI and HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME/bin/mapred job -list all But found that GridMix job client was stuck while trying connect to HistoryServer Then tried to do HADOOP_MAPRED_HOME/bin/mapred job -status jobid JobClient also got stuck while looking for token to connect to History server Then looked at History Server logs and found History is trowing "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded" error. With 10GB of Heap space and 1200 Jobs, History Server should not go out of memory . No matter what are the type of jobs. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira