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[jira] Commented: (MAPREDUCE-2324) Job should fail if a reduce task can't be scheduled anywhere

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Allen Wittenauer commented on MAPREDUCE-2324:
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We just hit this a few weeks ago.  Thanks for filing a bug, because I forgot to do it. :)

> Job should fail if a reduce task can't be scheduled anywhere
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-2324
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-2324
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 0.20.2
>            Reporter: Todd Lipcon
>
> If there's a reduce task that needs more disk space than is available on any mapred.local.dir in the cluster, that task will stay pending forever. For example, we produced this in a QA cluster by accidentally running terasort with one reducer - since no mapred.local.dir had 1T free, the job remained in pending state for several days. The reason for the "stuck" task wasn't clear from a user perspective until we looked at the JT logs.
> Probably better to just fail the job if a reduce task goes through all TTs and finds that there isn't enough space.

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