[jira] [Resolved] (MAPREDUCE-1755) Zombie tasks kept alive by logging system

["Allen Wittenauer (Resolved) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1755?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Allen Wittenauer resolved MAPREDUCE-1755.
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    Resolution: Won't Fix

It is easier to just pkill -9 java tasks at regular intervals than fix this.
                
> Zombie tasks kept alive by logging system
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>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-1755
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1755
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 0.20.2
>            Reporter: Allen Wittenauer
>         Attachments: jstack.txt, stderr.txt, syslog.txt, tightloop.txt
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> I'm currently looking at a task that, as far as the task tracker is concerned, is dead.  Like long long long ago dead.  It was a failed task that ran out of heap.  Rather than just kill it, I thought I would see what it was doing, since it was clearly using system resources.  It would appear the system is trying to log but failing.  I'm guessing we're missing an error condition and not doing the appropriate thing. See the comments for more.

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