last map task taking too long

2009-09-29 Thread achilles852
Hey.. I am trying to write a small mapreduce program. I launch a few map tasks, each of which should complete within a certain time (say 5 minutes)... all the tasks complete within 5 minutes except the last one - which takes around 10 times more the time taken by all other map tasks.any idea w

Re: last map task taking too long

2009-09-29 Thread achilles852
Basically, it finishes what it is supposed to do (I view the logs to find out), but does not move onto the reduce stage. Ted Dunning wrote: > > Is that last map task actually running, or is it pending? > > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 5:57 PM, achilles852 wrote: > >> &g

RE: last map task taking too long

2009-09-29 Thread achilles852
n your map tasks? It might be helpful if you paste the > logs here after blanking your system specific info., as then one can find > out where till the reduce it went or if the copy phase started at all. > > Thanks, > Amogh > > -Original Message- > From: achil

RE: last map task taking too long

2009-09-30 Thread achilles852
sekar-2 wrote: > > Hi, > Can you provide info on the input like compression etc? Also, are you > using cached files in your map tasks? It might be helpful if you paste the > logs here after blanking your system specific info., as then one can find > out where till the reduce it wen

Re: last map task taking too long

2009-09-30 Thread achilles852
didn't spend the time to know for sure) > > thanks, > thushara > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:46 AM, achilles852 wrote: > >> >> Running Hadoop on EC2 using 32 bit small instances with 5 slaves. The job >> has >> 5 map tasks and 1 reduce task. Each ma