[jira] [Resolved] (HADOOP-3120) Large #of tasks failing at one time can effectively hang the jobtracker

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

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3120?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Allen Wittenauer resolved HADOOP-3120.
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    Resolution: Incomplete

I'm going to close this as stale. 

> Large #of tasks failing at one time can effectively hang the jobtracker 
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>                 Key: HADOOP-3120
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3120
>             Project: Hadoop Common
>          Issue Type: Bug
>         Environment: Linux/Hadoop-15.3
>            Reporter: Pete Wyckoff
>            Priority: Minor
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> We think that JobTracker.removeMarkedTaks does so much logging when this happens (ie logging thousands of failed taks per cycle) that nothing else can go on (since it's called from a synchronized method) and thus by the next cycle, the next waves of jobs have failed and we again have 10s of thousands of failures to log and on and on.
> At least, the above is what we observed - just a continual printing of those failures and nothing else happening on and on. Of course the original jobs may have ultimately failed but new jobs come in to perpetuate the problem.
> This has happened to us a number of times and since we commented out the log.info in that method we haven't had any problems. Although thousands and thousands of task failures are hopefully not that common.



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