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Brock Noland commented on HIVE-4756: ------------------------------------ OK, I think figured it out. I develop on a RH6.3 host and our internal parallel test environment is also RH6.3. The failures I pasted above were from the parallel test environment. As they failed locally I thought this was ubiquitous. Long story short, it this looks to be caused by YARN memory limits in additional to glibc's new per-thread arena allocator. Setting the environment variable MALLOC_ARENA_MAX=4 before starting the test fixes the failures. Therefore the fix could be to patch our testutils/hadoop script similar to HADOOP-7154 or to upgrade to 2.0.4-alpha (or 5) since for MiniMR they stopped limiting memory in MAPREDUCE-5094. I am fine with either but unless there is known issues with a new version of Hadoop I'd prefer that approach for dogfooding purposes. > Upgrade Hadoop 0.23 profile to 2.0.5-alpha > ------------------------------------------ > > Key: HIVE-4756 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-4756 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Sub-task > Reporter: Brock Noland > Assignee: Brock Noland > Fix For: 0.12.0 > > Attachments: HIVE-4756.patch > > > The minimr tests fail at present with the 0.23 profile. In my tests upgrading > to 2.0.5-alpha fixes this. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira