[HADOOP-186] communication problems in the task tracker cause long latency

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.1.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.2.0
• Assignee: Owen O'Malley
• Reporter: Owen O'Malley
• Created: 02/May/06 11:21
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:51
• Resolved: 03/May/06 01:15

Description

The Task Tracker's offerService loop has no protection from exceptions, so that any communication problems with the Job Tracker, such as RPC timeouts, cause the TaskTracker to sleep 5 seconds and start again at the top of the loop.