[YARN-4334] Ability to avoid ResourceManager recovery if state store is "too old"

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: resourcemanager
• Assignee: Chang Li
• Reporter: Jason Darrell Lowe
• Created: 05/Nov/15 20:26
• Updated: 07/Jan/17 01:52

Description

There are times when a ResourceManager has been down long enough that ApplicationMasters and potentially external client-side monitoring mechanisms have given up completely. If the ResourceManager starts back up and tries to recover we can get into situations where the RM launches new application attempts for the AMs that gave up, but then the client also launches another instance of the app because it assumed everything was dead.

It would be nice if the RM could be optionally configured to avoid trying to recover if the state store was "too old." The RM would come up without any applications recovered, but we would avoid a double-submission situation.