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Karthik Kambatla commented on MAPREDUCE-5110: --------------------------------------------- Thanks for chiming in, Vinod. My intention was precisely to add an aggressive timeout for task attempt launches and keeping it job-configurable should be good. We can implement it either on JT or TT. Do you think it is okay to implement in on TT? Please suggest - I ll upload a patch accordingly. If interested, the user should be able to configure this timeout to be shorter than the tracker-expiry-interval to ensure a single attempt. > Long task launch delays can lead to multiple parallel attempts of the task > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: MAPREDUCE-5110 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-5110 > Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce > Issue Type: Bug > Components: tasktracker > Affects Versions: 1.1.2 > Reporter: Karthik Kambatla > Assignee: Karthik Kambatla > Attachments: expose-mr-5110.patch, mr-5110.patch, mr-5110.patch, > mr-5110-tt-only.patch > > > If a task takes too long to launch, the JT expires the task and schedules > another attempt. The earlier attempt can start after the later attempt > leading to two parallel attempts running at the same time. This is > particularly an issue if the user turns off speculation and expects a single > attempt of a task to run at any point in time. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira