That's unusual. Are you able to submit a simple sleep job? You can do this using:
yarn jar $HADOOP_PREFIX/share/hadoop/mapreduce/hadoop-mapreduce-client-jobclient-*-tests.jar sleep -m 1 -r 1 This should finish it in under a minute. Otherwise I'd suspect that your cluster is misconfigured. HTH Ravi On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 7:11 PM, Ascot Moss <ascot.m...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have submitted a mapreduce job, and can find it from job list, however > I find its STATE is PREP over last 8 hours, any idea why it takes so long > to "PREP"? > > regards > > > > (mapred job -list) > > JobId State StartTime UserName Queue > Priority UsedContainers RsvdContainers UsedMem RsvdMem NeededMem AM info > > job_1470075140254_0003 PREP 1470402873895 > > > >
