Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-core-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 34912 invoked from network); 29 Sep 2008 17:25:07 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.2) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 29 Sep 2008 17:25:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 66011 invoked by uid 500); 29 Sep 2008 17:25:03 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hadoop-core-dev-archive@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 65980 invoked by uid 500); 29 Sep 2008 17:25:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact core-dev-help@hadoop.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: core-dev@hadoop.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list core-dev@hadoop.apache.org Received: (qmail 65969 invoked by uid 99); 29 Sep 2008 17:25:03 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:25:03 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2000.0 required=10.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received: from [140.211.11.140] (HELO brutus.apache.org) (140.211.11.140) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:24:09 +0000 Received: from brutus (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by brutus.apache.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40654234C1F4 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:24:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <822884362.1222709084262.JavaMail.jira@brutus> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:24:44 -0700 (PDT) From: "dhruba borthakur (JIRA)" To: core-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: [jira] Commented: (HADOOP-4296) Spasm of JobClient failures on successful jobs every once in a while In-Reply-To: <1228560926.1222535626082.JavaMail.jira@brutus> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4296?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=12635457#action_12635457 ] dhruba borthakur commented on HADOOP-4296: ------------------------------------------ So, your assumption is that the job finished successfully and got purged from the job queue (because of high volume of job completions from the same user) within 2 seconds? The current value of mapred.jobtracker.completeuserjobs.maximum is set to 20. > Spasm of JobClient failures on successful jobs every once in a while > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-4296 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4296 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: Bug > Components: mapred > Affects Versions: 0.17.1 > Reporter: Joydeep Sen Sarma > Priority: Critical > > At very busy times - we get a wave of job client failures all at the same time. the failures come when the job is about to complete. when we look at the job history files - the jobs are actually complete. Here's the stack: > 08/09/27 02:18:00 INFO mapred.JobClient: map 100% reduce 98% > 08/09/27 02:18:41 INFO mapred.JobClient: map 100% reduce 99% > java.lang.NullPointerException > at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.runJob(JobClient.java:993) > at com.facebook.hive.common.columnSetLoader.main(columnSetLoader.java:535) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:155) -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.