'whoami', 'topologyscript' calls failing with java.io.IOException: error=12, Cannot allocate memory

• Key: HADOOP-5059
• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Koji Noguchi
• Component/s: util

Environment

On nodes with
physical memory 32G
Swap 16G

Primary/Secondary Namenode using 25G of heap or more

Description

We've seen primary/secondary namenodes fail when calling whoami or topologyscripts.
(Discussed as part of HADOOP-4998)

Sample stack traces.

Primary Namenode

2009-01-12 03:57:27,381 WARN org.apache.hadoop.net.ScriptBasedMapping: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program
"/path/topologyProgram" (in directory "/path"):
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.util.Shell$ShellCommandExecutor.execute(Shell.java:286)
        at org.apache.hadoop.net.ScriptBasedMapping.runResolveCommand(ScriptBasedMapping.java:122)
        at org.apache.hadoop.net.ScriptBasedMapping.resolve(ScriptBasedMapping.java:73)
        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem$ResolutionMonitor.run(FSNamesystem.java:1869)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
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)
        ... 7 more

2009-01-12 03:57:27,381 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSNamesystem: The resolve call returned null! Using /default-rack
for some hosts
2009-01-12 03:57:27,381 INFO org.apache.hadoop.net.NetworkTopology: Adding a new node: /default-rack/55.5.55.55:50010

Secondary Namenode

2008-10-09 02:00:58,288 ERROR org.apache.hadoop.dfs.NameNode.Secondary: java.io.IOException:
javax.security.auth.login.LoginException: Login failed: Cannot run program "whoami": java.io.IOException:
error=12, Cannot allocate memory
        at org.apache.hadoop.security.UnixUserGroupInformation.login(UnixUserGroupInformation.java:250)
        at org.apache.hadoop.security.UnixUserGroupInformation.login(UnixUserGroupInformation.java:275)
        at org.apache.hadoop.security.UnixUserGroupInformation.login(UnixUserGroupInformation.java:257)
        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem.setConfigurationParameters(FSNamesystem.java:370)
        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem.<init>(FSNamesystem.java:359)
        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.SecondaryNameNode.doMerge(SecondaryNameNode.java:340)
        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.SecondaryNameNode.doCheckpoint(SecondaryNameNode.java:312)
        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.SecondaryNameNode.run(SecondaryNameNode.java:223)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem.setConfigurationParameters(FSNamesystem.java:372)
        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.FSNamesystem.<init>(FSNamesystem.java:359)
        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.SecondaryNameNode.doMerge(SecondaryNameNode.java:340)
        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.SecondaryNameNode.doCheckpoint(SecondaryNameNode.java:312)
        at org.apache.hadoop.dfs.SecondaryNameNode.run(SecondaryNameNode.java:223)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)