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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 13:41:05 -0800 (PST)
From: "Doug Cutting (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Updated: (HADOOP-491) streaming jobs should allow programs
 that don't do any IO for a long time
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Doug Cutting updated HADOOP-491:
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    Status: Open  (was: Patch Available)

I think instead of adding a new configuration option, this should simply use mapred.task.timeout, perhaps changing that to be per-job rather than per-tracker, and implementing zero-means-never.

> streaming jobs should allow programs that don't do any IO for a long time
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-491
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-491
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: contrib/streaming
>            Reporter: arkady borkovsky
>         Assigned To: Arun C Murthy
>         Attachments: HADOOP-491_20070131_1.patch
>
>
> The jobtracker relies on task to send heartbeats  to know the tasks are still alive.
> There is a 600 seconds timeout preset.
> hadoop streaming also uses input to or output from the program it spawns to indicate progress, sending appropriate heartbeats.
> Some spawned programs spend longer that 600 seconds without any output while being perfectly healthy.
> It would be good to enhance the interface between hadoop streaming and the programs it spawns to track a healthy program in the absense of output.
> There are certain dangers with this protocol: e.g. a task can run a separate thread that does nothing but send "i'm alive" message.   This would be a user bug to abuse the API in such way.  

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