Howto kill a container?

[Chris Riccomini <cr...@linkedin.com>]

Hey Guys,

How exactly do you have an AM kill a container?

I send an allocate() request with the container id in release, but it appears that the RM doesn’t ACTUALLY release the container until the container stops. I assume that there’s a way for the AM to to tell the RM to tell the NM to kill the container, or that there’s a way for the container to get its current state, and see if it’s been released so that it can shutdown gracefully.

How do I do this?

Thanks!
Chris

Re: Howto kill a container?

[Hitesh Shah <hi...@hortonworks.com>]

Hi Chris

The AM should send a stop container request to the ContainerManager to kill the container in question. This will trigger a kill event to the running container and eventually, when the AM talks to the RM, the killed container would be part of the completed containers list in allocate response.  

-- Hitesh 

On Oct 25, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Chris Riccomini wrote:

> Hey Guys,
> 
> How exactly do you have an AM kill a container?
> 
> I send an allocate() request with the container id in release, but it appears that the RM doesn’t ACTUALLY release the container until the container stops. I assume that there’s a way for the AM to to tell the RM to tell the NM to kill the container, or that there’s a way for the container to get its current state, and see if it’s been released so that it can shutdown gracefully.
> 
> How do I do this?
> 
> Thanks!
> Chris