This seems like a code bug, following your conversation. Raghavendra/Bing, can one of you please create a ticket at https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/CreateIssue!default.jspa under Hadoop MapReduce? That way it can get fixed in the next release.
Thanks, +Vinod >>> Also i set request.setHostName("client"); where client is the hostname of >>> a node >>> I checked the log to find the following error >>> java.io.FileNotFoundException: File >>> /local1/yarn/.yarn/local/usercache/rahul_2011/appcache/ >>> application_1325760852770_0001 does not exist >>> at >>> org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem.getFileStatus(RawLocalFileSystem.java:431) >>> at >>> org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.primitiveMkdir(FileSystem.java:815) >>> at >>> org.apache.hadoop.fs.DelegateToFileSystem.mkdir(DelegateToFileSystem.java:143) >>> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FilterFs.mkdir(FilterFs.java:189) >>> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileContext$4.next(FileContext.java:700) >>> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileContext$4.next(FileContext.java:697) >>> at >>> org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileContext$FSLinkResolver.resolve(FileContext.java:2325) >>> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileContext.mkdir(FileContext.java:697) >>> at >>> org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.nodemanager.DefaultContainerExecutor.launchContainer(DefaultContainerExecutor.java:122) >>> at >>> org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.nodemanager.containermanager.launcher.ContainerLaunch.call(ContainerLaunch.java:237) >>> at >>> org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.nodemanager.containermanager.launcher.ContainerLaunch.call(ContainerLaunch.java:67) >>> at >>> java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:334) >>> at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:166) >>> at >>> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1110) >>> at >>> java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:603) >>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) >>> >>> i.e containers are only launching within the host where the application >>> master runs while the other nodes always remain free. >>> Any ideas..... >> >> > > > > -- > Bing Jiang > Tel:(86)134-2619-1361 > National Research Center for Intelligent Computing Systems > Institute of Computing technology > Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Science >