Thanks for the responses all!

@Shane - that's great, we planned to move to 3.1.x soon anyway, all the
more reason to do that.

@Eric - I opened a JIRA here with my findings:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/YARN-8786

On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:23 PM, Shane Kumpf <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hey Jon,
>
> YARN-8751 takes care of the issue that marks the NM unhealthy under these
> conditions. If you can open a JIRA with details on the swallowed error,
> that would be appreciated. As noted, 3.1.1 has a number of fixes to the
> YARN containerization features, so it would be great if you can see if the
> issue still occurs with that release.
>
> Thanks,
> -Shane
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 1:05 PM Jeff Hubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I would also just suggest moving up to 3.1.1 and trying again. Barring
>> that, maybe you can take the error message at its word. My experience with
>> running Hadoop 3.x jobs is a little limited, but I know that jobs can paint
>> a lot of data into /tmp/hadoop-yarn and if your nodes can't absorb a lot of
>> expansion in that directory, things will error out albeit softly. Noting
>> the way the terasort example behaves in that regard, I set up my worker
>> nodes to make /tmp/hadoop-yarn a mount point for its own disk volume whose
>> size I can preset and I can also optionally enable transparent compression
>> via btrfs. A lot of times, I would expect I could give that volume some
>> token small size but in trying to make a 1/5-scale (i.e., 200GB) terasort
>> run, 128GiB with compression enabled across five workers wasn't enough.
>> 1/10th-scale I could manage but at 1/5, it would fill up one node's
>> /tmp/hadoop-yarn, then the next, then the next, etc. Makes me think that
>> terasort tries to write the whole dang thing out to extra-HDFS file system
>> before making an output file in HDFS.
>>
>> On 9/17/18 1:55 PM, Eric Badger wrote:
>>
>> Hi Jonathan,
>>
>> Have you opened up a YARN JIRA with your findings? If not, that would be
>> the next step in debugging the issue and coding up a fix. This certainly
>> sounds like a bug and something that we should get to the bottom of.
>>
>> As far as Nodemanagers becoming unhealthy, a config could be added to
>> prevent this. But, if you're only seeing 1 failure out of millions of
>> tasks, this seems like it would unmask more problems than it fixes. 1
>> container failing is bad, but a node going bad and failing every container
>> that runs on it forever until it is shutdown is much, much worse. However,
>> if you think that you have a use case that could benefit from the config
>> being optional, that is something we could also look into. That would be a
>> separate YARN JIRA as well.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:37 PM, Jonathan Bender <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> We started are using CGroups with LinuxContainerExecutor recently,
>>> running Apache Hadoop 3.0.0. Occasionally (once out of many millions of
>>> tasks) a yarn container will fail with a message like the following:
>>> WARN privileged.PrivilegedOperationExecutor: Shell execution returned
>>> exit code: 35. Privileged Execution Operation Stderr:
>>> Could not create container dirsCould not create local files and
>>> directories
>>>
>>> Looking at the container executor source it's traceable to errors here:
>>> https://github.com/apache/hadoop/blob/release-3.0.0-RC1/
>>> hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-
>>> nodemanager/src/main/native/container-executor/impl/
>>> container-executor.c#L1604
>>>
>>> And ultimately to https://github.com/apache/
>>> hadoop/blob/release-3.0.0-RC1/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-
>>> yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/native/
>>> container-executor/impl/container-executor.c#L672
>>>
>>> The root failure seems to be in the underlying mkdir call, but that exit
>>> code / errno is swallowed so we don't have more details. We tend to see
>>> this when many containers start at the same time for the same application
>>> on a host, and suspect it may be related to some race conditions around
>>> those shared directories between containers for the same application.
>>>
>>> Has anyone seen similar failures in using the LinuxContainerExecutor?
>>>
>>> This issue compounded because LinuxContainerExecutor renders the node
>>> unhealthy in these scenarios: https://github.com/apache/
>>> hadoop/blob/release-3.0.0-RC1/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-
>>> yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-
>>> nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/
>>> LinuxContainerExecutor.java#L566
>>>
>>> Under some circumstances this seems appropriate, but since this is a
>>> transient failure (none of these machines were at capacity for disks,
>>> inodes, etc) we shouldn't down the NodeManager. The behavior to add this
>>> blacklisting came as part of https://issues.apache.org/
>>> jira/browse/YARN-6302 which seems perfectly valid, but perhaps we
>>> should make this configurable so certain users can opt out?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Jon
>>>
>>
>>
>>

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