[jira] Commented: (MAPREDUCE-158) mapred.userlog.retain.hours killing long running tasks

["Vinod K V (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Vinod K V commented on MAPREDUCE-158:
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This issue is circumvented after HADOOP-4374 and so is not visible beyond 0.20.

The reason why logs of running tasks are no longer cleaned up causing failures is that HADOOP-4374 introduced log.tmp for atomicity of changes to log.index which is periodically created and written to by a running task. This results in a periodic change in modification time of attempt-log directory and prevents its cleanup even though _mapred.userlog.retain.hours_ is over.

So what should be done here? Close this issue? Or make the check for running tasks explicit during cleanup?

> mapred.userlog.retain.hours killing long running tasks
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>
>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-158
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-158
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: tasktracker
>         Environment: 0.19.2-dev, r753365 
>            Reporter: Billy Pearson
>         Attachments: hadoop-5600.patch
>
>
> One can reproduce the scenario by configuring mapred.userlog.retain.hours to 1hr, and running tasks that take more than an hour.
> More info on closed ticket HADOOP-5591.

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