[HADOOP-4714] map tasks timing out during merge phase

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.18.1
• Fix Version/s: 0.18.3
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Jothi Padmanabhan
• Reporter: Christian Kunz
• Created: 24/Nov/08 06:38
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 16:53
• Resolved: 02/Dec/08 19:12

Description

With compression of transient data turned on some parts of the merge phase seem to not report progress enough.

We see a lot of task failures during the merge phase, most of them timing out (even with a 20 min timeout)