java - out of Memory Error in Hadoop

Question

I tried installing Hadoop following this http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/stable/single_node_setup.html document. When I tried executing this

bin/hadoop jar hadoop-examples-*.jar grep input output 'dfs[a-z.]+' 

I am getting the following Exception

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

Please suggest a solution so that i can try out the example. The entire Exception is listed below. I am new to Hadoop I might have done something dumb . Any suggestion will be highly appreciated.

anuj@anuj-VPCEA13EN:~/hadoop$ bin/hadoop jar hadoop-examples-*.jar grep input output 'dfs[a-z.]+'
11/12/11 17:38:22 INFO util.NativeCodeLoader: Loaded the native-hadoop library
11/12/11 17:38:22 INFO mapred.FileInputFormat: Total input paths to process : 7
11/12/11 17:38:22 INFO mapred.JobClient: Running job: job_local_0001
11/12/11 17:38:22 INFO util.ProcessTree: setsid exited with exit code 0
11/12/11 17:38:22 INFO mapred.Task:  Using ResourceCalculatorPlugin : org.apache.hadoop.util.LinuxResourceCalculatorPlugin@e49dcd
11/12/11 17:38:22 INFO mapred.MapTask: numReduceTasks: 1
11/12/11 17:38:22 INFO mapred.MapTask: io.sort.mb = 100
11/12/11 17:38:22 WARN mapred.LocalJobRunner: job_local_0001
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask$MapOutputBuffer.<init>(MapTask.java:949)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:428)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:372)
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalJobRunner$Job.run(LocalJobRunner.java:212)
11/12/11 17:38:23 INFO mapred.JobClient:  map 0% reduce 0%
11/12/11 17:38:23 INFO mapred.JobClient: Job complete: job_local_0001
11/12/11 17:38:23 INFO mapred.JobClient: Counters: 0
11/12/11 17:38:23 INFO mapred.JobClient: Job Failed: NA
java.io.IOException: Job failed!
    at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.JobClient.runJob(JobClient.java:1257)
    at org.apache.hadoop.examples.Grep.run(Grep.java:69)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.ToolRunner.run(ToolRunner.java:65)
    at org.apache.hadoop.examples.Grep.main(Grep.java:93)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.ProgramDriver$ProgramDescription.invoke(ProgramDriver.java:68)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.ProgramDriver.driver(ProgramDriver.java:139)
    at org.apache.hadoop.examples.ExampleDriver.main(ExampleDriver.java:64)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.apache.hadoop.util.RunJar.main(RunJar.java:156)

Answer 1

For anyone using RPM or DEB packages, the documentation and common advice is misleading. These packages install hadoop configuration files into /etc/hadoop. These will take priority over other settings.

The /etc/hadoop/hadoop-env.sh sets the maximum java heap memory for Hadoop, by Default it is:

   export HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS="-Xmx128m $HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS"

This Xmx setting is too low, simply change it to this and rerun

   export HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS="-Xmx2048m $HADOOP_CLIENT_OPTS"