[jira] Commented: (HADOOP-1127) Speculative Execution and output of Reduce tasks

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Hadoop QA commented on HADOOP-1127:
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-1, because 3 attempts failed to build and test the latest attachment http://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/attachment/12354730/HADOOP-1127_20070402_3.patch against trunk revision http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/lucene/hadoop/trunk/524659. Please note that this message is automatically generated and may represent a problem with the automation system and not the patch. Results are at http://lucene.zones.apache.org:8080/hudson/job/Hadoop-Patch

> Speculative Execution and output of Reduce tasks
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>                 Key: HADOOP-1127
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1127
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: mapred
>    Affects Versions: 0.12.0
>            Reporter: Arun C Murthy
>         Assigned To: Arun C Murthy
>             Fix For: 0.13.0
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>         Attachments: HADOOP-1127_20070328_1.patch, HADOOP-1127_20070331_2.patch, HADOOP-1127_20070402_3.patch
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> We've recently seen instances where jobs run with 'speculative execution' tend to be quite unstable and fail with *AlreadyBeingCreatedException* noticed at the NameNode. Also potentially we could have hairy situations where a failed Reduce tasks's output could clash with a successful task's (same tip) output.
> As it exists, speculative execution relies on the PhasedFileSystem which creates a temp output file and then on task-completion that file is 'moved' to its final position via a call to PhasedFileSystem.commit from ReduceTask.run(). This has lead to issues such as the above.
> Proposal:
> Basically the idea is to due this uniformly for all Reduce tasks i.e. all reducers create temp files and then have a serialized 'commit' done by the JobTracker which moves the temp file to it's final position. 
> We create the temp file in the job's output directory itself:
> <output_dir>/_<taskid> (emphasis on the leading '_')
> On task completion we'll add that temp file's path to the TaskStatus and then the JobTracker moves that file to it's final position.
> Thoughts?

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