The finer grained controls are available in 2.x MR2 today. Pretty sure
they weren't deprecated/removed, but may have been replaced by better
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:07 PM, German Florez-Larrahondo
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> Also, a simple explanation of how speculative execution works and what are
> the key settings can be found here:
> In addition, there used to be other parameters (slownodethreshold,
> slowtaskthreshold & speculativecap)
> but I believe they were deprecated...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harsh J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 12:11 PM
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Fault tolerance and Speculative Execution
> What you describe in the first paragraph is not true.
> Speculative execution API toggles are listed in the documentation:
> and in the mapred-default page in property form:
> http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/mapred-default.html. Speculative
> execution is enabled by default.
> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:32 PM, Sundeep Kambhampati
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Is it true that Hadoop 'always' starts same map tasks multiple times
>> in order to be fault tolerant. i.e. same task is launched on several
>> machines so that even if a node fails then same task would be
>> available on other node. And in case no node fails redundant task that
> finishes late is killed.
>> If it is true how can I change that configuration for Hadoop to do it
>> or not do it.
>> Speculative execution on the other hand does what I explained above
>> (redundant map tasks) but only after all the map tasks are scheduled
>> and if some nodes are free it starts redundant map tasks for those
>> which are running slow. Is it always true? How do change this
>> configuration enable/disable.
>> I am using Hadoop-1.1.2 incase version matters.
>> I really appreciate if someone could help me with this. Thank you.
> Harsh J