[jira] [Created] (MAPREDUCE-3150) Allow TT to run children with an elevated oom_adj score

["Todd Lipcon (Created) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Allow TT to run children with an elevated oom_adj score
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                 Key: MAPREDUCE-3150
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-3150
             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: mrv2, task-controller
    Affects Versions: 0.20.206.0, 0.23.0
            Reporter: Todd Lipcon


Some users of hadoop have run into issues where memory on the machines gets oversubscribed for various reasons. When this happens, the machines enter swap, causing things like timeouts, HBase aborts, etc. One mitigation strategy among many is to run the machines without swap, and allow the linux OOM killer to kill tasks. However, this is dangerous if the OOM killer might kill the TT, RS, DN, etc. We can set the {{oom_adj}} value in proc for the MR children in order to encourage the oom killer to kill the right thing.

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