Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-lucene-hadoop-user-archive@locus.apache.org Received: (qmail 94632 invoked from network); 5 Apr 2006 17:09:11 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (209.237.227.199) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 5 Apr 2006 17:09:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 62789 invoked by uid 500); 5 Apr 2006 17:08:59 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-lucene-hadoop-user-archive@lucene.apache.org Received: (qmail 62768 invoked by uid 500); 5 Apr 2006 17:08:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact hadoop-user-help@lucene.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: hadoop-user@lucene.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list hadoop-user@lucene.apache.org Received: (qmail 62759 invoked by uid 99); 5 Apr 2006 17:08:58 -0000 Received: from asf.osuosl.org (HELO asf.osuosl.org) (140.211.166.49) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 10:08:58 -0700 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests= X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (asf.osuosl.org: local policy) Received: from [207.115.57.32] (HELO ylpvm01.prodigy.net) (207.115.57.32) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 05 Apr 2006 10:08:58 -0700 Received: from pimout5-ext.prodigy.net (pimout5-int.prodigy.net [207.115.4.21]) by ylpvm01.prodigy.net (8.12.10 outbound/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k35H8Xai002726 for ; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 13:08:33 -0400 X-ORBL: [69.228.204.183] Received: from [192.168.168.15] (adsl-69-228-204-183.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net [69.228.204.183]) by pimout5-ext.prodigy.net (8.13.4 outbound domainkey aix/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k35H8UVh084714; Wed, 5 Apr 2006 13:08:33 -0400 Message-ID: <4433F98E.60805@apache.org> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 10:08:30 -0700 From: Doug Cutting User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hadoop-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: HADOOP--116 doubt References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org X-Spam-Rating: minotaur.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Raghavendra Prabhu wrote: > But Does not it wait in a loop until the job is complete? Yes, but if one types Control-C, or the submitting workstation is rebooted, etc., then the job continues to run. So the cleanup is best done when the job completes rather than when the submitter exits. Usually those are the same time, but not always. Doug