Re: Does hadoop local mode support running multiple jobs in different threads?

[Bryan Keller <br...@gmail.com>]

I don't believe the local job tracker can handle launching multiple jobs in different threads. I am running into the same problems you are, where one job steps on the temp directory of another.

On Jul 1, 2011, at 5:42 AM, Yaozhen Pan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am not sure if this question (as title) has been asked before, but I
> didn't find an answer by googling.
> 
> I'd like to explain the scenario of my problem:
> My program launches several threads in the same time, while each thread will
> submit a hadoop job and wait for the job to complete.
> The unit tests were run in local mode, mini-cluster and the real hadoop
> cluster.
> I found the unit tests may fail in local mode, but they always succeeded in
> mini-cluster and real hadoop cluster.
> When unit test failed in local mode, the causes may be different (stack
> traces are posted at the end of mail).
> 
> It seems multi-thead running multiple jobs is not supported in local mode,
> is it?
> 
> Error 1:
> 2011-07-01 20:24:36,460 WARN  [Thread-38] mapred.LocalJobRunner
> (LocalJobRunner.java:run(256)) - job_local_0001
> java.io.FileNotFoundException: File
> build/test/tmp/mapred/local/taskTracker/jobcache/job_local_0001/attempt_local_0001_m_000000_0/output/spill0.out
> does not exist.
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem.getFileStatus(RawLocalFileSystem.java:361)
> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.copy(FileUtil.java:192)
> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.copy(FileUtil.java:142)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.fs.RawLocalFileSystem.rename(RawLocalFileSystem.java:253)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.mergeParts(MapTask.java:1447)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.flush(MapTask.java:1154)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$NewOutputCollector.close(MapTask.java:549)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runNewMapper(MapTask.java:623)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:305)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalJobRunner$Job.run(LocalJobRunner.java:177)
> 
> Error 2:
> 2011-07-01 19:00:25,546 INFO  [Thread-32] fs.FSInputChecker
> (FSInputChecker.java:readChecksumChunk(247)) - Found checksum error: b[3584,
> 4096]=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
> org.apache.hadoop.fs.ChecksumException: Checksum error:
> file:/home/hadoop-user/hadoop-proj/build/test/tmp/mapred/system/job_local_0003/job.xml
> at 3584
> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSInputChecker.verifySum(FSInputChecker.java:277)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSInputChecker.readChecksumChunk(FSInputChecker.java:241)
> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSInputChecker.read1(FSInputChecker.java:189)
> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSInputChecker.read(FSInputChecker.java:158)
> at java.io.DataInputStream.read(DataInputStream.java:83)
> at org.apache.hadoop.io.IOUtils.copyBytes(IOUtils.java:49)
> at org.apache.hadoop.io.IOUtils.copyBytes(IOUtils.java:87)
> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.copy(FileUtil.java:209)
> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileUtil.copy(FileUtil.java:142)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalFileSystem.copyToLocalFile(LocalFileSystem.java:61)
> at org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem.copyToLocalFile(FileSystem.java:1197)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalJobRunner$Job.<init>(LocalJobRunner.java:92)
> at
> org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalJobRunner.submitJob(LocalJobRunner.java:373)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.submitJobInternal(JobClient.java:800)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job.submit(Job.java:432)
> at org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job.waitForCompletion(Job.java:448)
> at hadoop.GroupingRunnable.run(GroupingRunnable.java:126)
> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)