[WHIRR-148] Hadoop jobs fail on large EC2 instances, possibly RHEL6 related

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 0.3.0
• Component/s: service/hadoop
• Assignee: Thomas White
• Reporter: Thomas White
• Created: 01/Dec/10 05:31
• Updated: 13/Feb/12 19:51
• Resolved: 13/Feb/12 19:51

Description

When using a m1.large or c1.xlarge hardware-id, jobs fail with a error like:

FAILED
java.io.IOException: Task process exit with nonzero status of 134.
	at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TaskRunner.run(TaskRunner.java:418)

Issue Links

• relates to: WHIRR-145 Add Whirr recipes for common configurations
• relates to: WHIRR-92 Add a benchmark for Hadoop clusters