[jira] Updated: (HADOOP-491) streaming jobs should allow programs that don't do any IO for a long time

["Arun C Murthy (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-491?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Arun C Murthy updated HADOOP-491:
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    Attachment: HADOOP-491_20070131_1.patch

Here is a straight-forward patch which lets a per-job configuration knob for task-launch timeout, and is set to '0' for streaming jobs...

> streaming jobs should allow programs that don't do any IO for a long time
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>
>                 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
>
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> 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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