March 24, 2011

Hadoop - out of disk space

Facing weird errors like
Exception running child : org.apache.hadoop.util.DiskChecker$DiskErrorException: Could not find any valid local directory for output/spill0.out

means simply some of the nodes run out of memory. To check hdfs status and available storage in each node: http://master-urls:50070/dfsnodelist.jsp?whatNodes=LIVE