Perhaps the following? I get the application logs from here after job completion. This is path on hdfs.
yarn.nodemanager.remote-app-log-dir Regards, Shahab On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 4:02 PM, John Lilley <john.lil...@redpoint.net> wrote: > We have a YARN task that is core-dumping, and the JVM error log says: > # Core dump written. Default location: > /data2/hadoop/yarn/local/usercache/jlilley/appcache/application_1405724043176_2453/container_1405724043176_2453_01_000002/core > or core.14801 > > However when I look at the node, everything below here is empty > /data2/hadoop/yarn/local/usercache/jlilley/appcache > > I seem to recall there is a YARN setting to control the time these files > are kept around after application exit, but I can't figure out what it is. > > Thanks, > john > >