Re: Giraph offloadPartition fails creation directory

2013-09-23 Thread Dionysis Logothetis
Hi all, I'm seeing the same problem. I'm pasting here part of the logs that looks more relevant in case it helps. This appears on the log of every hadoop slave node. 2013-09-23 12:34:29,908 INFO org.apache.giraph.comm.SendPartitionCache: SendPartitionCache: maxVerticesPerTransfer = 1

Re: Giraph offloadPartition fails creation directory

2013-09-23 Thread Claudio Martella
Weird. This is the code: if (!parent.exists()) { if (!parent.mkdirs()) { LOG.error(offloadPartition: Failed to create directory + parent. getAbsolutePath()); } } Question is why parent.mkdirs() is returning false. Could be a problem of permissions. Could you

Re: Giraph offloadPartition fails creation directory

2013-09-12 Thread Alexander Asplund
Unfortunately there's some restrictions that means I don't really have them handy, BUT pointing me towards the local disk helped me partially resolve it. There are rights issues with this directory, but I was able to get by it by manually creating a separate giraph in mapreduce local storage

Re: Giraph offloadPartition fails creation directory

2013-09-12 Thread Alexander Asplund
Actually, I take that back. It seems it does succeeded in creating partitions - it just struggles with it sometimes. Should I be worried about these errors if partition directories seem to be filling up? On Sep 11, 2013 6:38 PM, Claudio Martella claudio.marte...@gmail.com wrote: Giraph does not

Re: Giraph offloadPartition fails creation directory

2013-09-12 Thread Alexander Asplund
Actually, why is it saying it fails to create directory in the first place, when it is trying to write files? On Sep 12, 2013 3:04 PM, Alexander Asplund alexaspl...@gmail.com wrote: I can also add that there is no such issue with DiskBackedMessageStore. It successfully creates a large number of

Giraph offloadPartition fails creation directory

2013-09-11 Thread Alexander Asplund
Hi, I'm still trying to get Giraph to work on a graph that requires more memory that is available. The problem is that when the Workers try to offload partitions, the offloading fails. The DiskBackedPartitionStore fails to create the directory _bsp/_partitions/job-/part-vertices-xxx (roughly

Re: Giraph offloadPartition fails creation directory

2013-09-11 Thread Claudio Martella
Giraph does not offload partitions or messages to HDFS in the out-of-core module. It uses local disk on the computing nodes. By defualt, it uses the tasktracker local directory where for example the distributed cache is stored. Could you provide the stacktrace Giraph is spitting when failing?