[MAPREDUCE-4304] Deadlock where all containers are held by ApplicationMasters should be prevented

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.23.1
• Component/s: mrv2, resourcemanager
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Herman Chen
• Created: 01/Jun/12 21:32
• Updated: 12/Oct/12 21:24

Description

In my test cluster with 4 NodeManagers, each with only ~1.6G container memory, when a burst of jobs, e.g. >10, are concurrently submitted, it is likely that 4 jobs are accepted, with 4 ApplicationMasters allocated, but then the jobs block each other indefinitely because they're all waiting to allocate more containers.

Note that the problem is not limited to tiny cluster like this. As long as the number of jobs being submitted is greater than the rate jobs finish, it may run into a vicious cycle where more and more containers are locked up by ApplicationMasters.