what does it mean when a job fails at 100%?

2009-11-13 Thread Mike Kendall
title says it all.. this isn't the first job i've written either. very confused.

Re: what does it mean when a job fails at 100%?

2009-11-13 Thread Edmund Kohlwey
Lots of things can happen. If you have a cleanup method, that can fail after map and reduce complete. Also, hadoop writes the output of a task to local disk, and only commits the results of the individual tasks to HDFS after they complete, so you might be failing on the copy to HDFS. On 11/13/

Re: what does it mean when a job fails at 100%?

2009-11-13 Thread brien colwell
It could be that the result can't be written to HDFS. Is there any hint in the log? I recently encountered this behavior when writing many files back. Mike Kendall wrote: title says it all.. this isn't the first job i've written either. very confused.

Re: what does it mean when a job fails at 100%?

2009-11-13 Thread Ashutosh Chauhan
Hi Mike, This % reported represents % of records read by framework not % of records processed. So, for sake of example lets say you only have one record in the data, framework will report 100% as soon as it is read even though you might be doing lot of processing on that record and that processing

Re: what does it mean when a job fails at 100%?

2009-11-13 Thread Mike Kendall
Hmm.. let's collect some error messages. looks like the same task failed 4 times... is there a way that i can get better logs about this task? MapAttempt TASK_TYPE="MAP" TASKID="task_200911131440_0001_m_000307" TASK_ATTEMPT_ID="attempt_200911131440_0001_m_000307_0" TASK_STATUS="FAILED" FINISH_T

Re: what does it mean when a job fails at 100%?

2009-11-13 Thread Mike Kendall
oh and just fyi this is the only failed task. everything else works just fine. maybe the data copied over incorrectly or was malformed... /me checks On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Mike Kendall wrote: > Hmm.. let's collect some error messages. looks like the same task failed > 4 times...