Hi Amit, Which Hadoop version are you using?
I have been told it's because of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2374 JM 2013/3/12 Amit Sela <am...@infolinks.com>: > Hi all, > > I have a weird failure occurring every now and then during a MapReduce job. > > This is the error: > > java.lang.Throwable: Child Error > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskRunner.run(TaskRunner.java:271) > Caused by: java.io.IOException: Task process exit with nonzero status of > 255. > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskRunner.run(TaskRunner.java:258) > > And sometimes it's the same but with status of 126. > > Any ideas ? > > Thanks.
