Hej I am running an aplication based on Nutch in a cluster with 1 master and 6 slaves in Amazon (with the same instances for all of them with 1.7GB RAM memory)
My configuration is the following: HADOOP_HEAPSIZE=1300 HADOOP_NAMENODE_OPTS=-Xmx400m HADOOP_SECONDARYNAMENODE_OPTS=-Xmx400m HADOOP_JOBTRACKER_OPTS=-Xmx400m dfs.replication=3 mapred.map.tasks=6 mapred.reduce.tasks=6 mapred.child.java.opts=-Xmx950m But in the second depth fetch, I got the following errors in some instances (while the other ones seems they fetched correctly) : 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - java.io.IOException: Spill failed 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.collect(MapTask.java:822) 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$OldOutputCollector.collect(MapTask.java:466) 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - at org.apache.nutch.fetcher.Fetcher$FetcherThread.output(Fetcher.java:907) 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - at org.apache.nutch.fetcher.Fetcher$FetcherThread.run(Fetcher.java:670) 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "bash": java.io.IOException: error=12, Cannot allocate memory 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:459) 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.runCommand(Shell.java:149) 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.run(Shell.java:134) 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - at org.apache.hadoop.fs.DF.getAvailable(DF.java:73) 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - at org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalDirAllocator$AllocatorPerContext.getLocalPathForWrite(LocalDirAllocator.java:329) 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - at org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalDirAllocator.getLocalPathForWrite(LocalDirAllocator.java:124) 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapOutputFile.getSpillFileForWrite(MapOutputFile.java:107) 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.sortAndSpill(MapTask.java:1183) 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.access$1800(MapTask.java:648) 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer$SpillThread.run(MapTask.java:1135) 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - Caused by: java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: error=12, Cannot allocate memory 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:148) 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:65) 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:452) 2010-02-10 03:18:31,185 FATAL fetcher.Fetcher - ... 9 more . . . . . 2010-02-10 03:18:31,463 WARN mapred.TaskTracker - Error running child java.io.IOException: Spill failed at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.flush(MapTask.java:1085) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:359) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:307) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.Child.main(Child.java:170) Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "bash": java.io.IOException: error=12, Cannot allocate memory at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:459) at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.runCommand(Shell.java:149) at org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.run(Shell.java:134) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.DF.getAvailable(DF.java:73) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalDirAllocator$AllocatorPerContext.getLocalPathForWrite(LocalDirAllocator.java:329) at org.apache.hadoop.fs.LocalDirAllocator.getLocalPathForWrite(LocalDirAllocator.java:124) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapOutputFile.getSpillFileForWrite(MapOutputFile.java:107) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.sortAndSpill(MapTask.java:1183) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.access$1800(MapTask.java:648) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer$SpillThread.run(MapTask.java:1135) Caused by: java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: error=12, Cannot allocate memory at java.lang.UNIXProcess.<init>(UNIXProcess.java:148) at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(ProcessImpl.java:65) at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(ProcessBuilder.java:452) ... 9 more Any idea?? Thanks in advance :) -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Spill-failed-tp27527092p27527092.html Sent from the Hadoop core-dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.