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View and restart Amazon EMR and application processes (daemons)

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View and restart Amazon EMR and application processes (daemons) - Amazon EMR
Viewing running processesStopping and restarting processes

When you troubleshoot a cluster, you may want to list running processes. You may also want to stop or restart processesS. For example, you can restart a process after you change a configuration or notice a problem with a particular process after you analyze log files and error messages.

There are two types of processes that run on a cluster: Amazon EMR processes (for example, instance-controller and Log Pusher), and processes associated with the applications installed on the cluster (for example, hadoop-hdfs-namenode, and hadoop-yarn-resourcemanager).

To work with processes directly on a cluster, you must first connect to the master node. For more information, see Connect to an Amazon EMR cluster.

Viewing running processes

The method you use to view running processes on a cluster differs according to the Amazon EMR version you use.

EMR 5.30.0 and 6.0.0 and later
Example : List all running processes

The following example uses systemctl and specifies --type to view all processes.

systemctl --type=service
Example : List specific processes

The following example lists all processes with names that contain hadoop.

systemctl --type=service | grep -i hadoop

Example output:

 hadoop-hdfs-namenode.service           loaded active running Hadoop namenode
 hadoop-httpfs.service                  loaded active running Hadoop httpfs
 hadoop-kms.service                     loaded active running Hadoop kms
 hadoop-mapreduce-historyserver.service loaded active running Hadoop historyserver
 hadoop-state-pusher.service            loaded active running Daemon process that processes and serves EMR metrics data.
 hadoop-yarn-proxyserver.service        loaded active running Hadoop proxyserver
 hadoop-yarn-resourcemanager.service    loaded active running Hadoop resourcemanager
 hadoop-yarn-timelineserver.service     loaded active running Hadoop timelineserver
Example : See a detailed status report for a specific process

The following example displays a detailed status report for the hadoop-hdfs-namenode service.

sudo systemctl status hadoop-hdfs-namenode

Example output:

hadoop-hdfs-namenode.service - Hadoop namenode
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/hadoop-hdfs-namenode.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2021-08-18 21:01:46 UTC; 26min ago
 Main PID: 9733 (java)
    Tasks: 0
   Memory: 1.1M
   CGroup: /system.slice/hadoop-hdfs-namenode.service
           ‣ 9733 /etc/alternatives/jre/bin/java -Dproc_namenode -Xmx1843m -server -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError=kill -9 %p ...

Aug 18 21:01:37 ip-172-31-20-123 systemd[1]: Starting Hadoop namenode...
Aug 18 21:01:37 ip-172-31-20-123 su[9715]: (to hdfs) root on none
Aug 18 21:01:37 ip-172-31-20-123 hadoop-hdfs-namenode[9683]: starting namenode, logging to /var/log/hadoop-hdfs/ha...out
Aug 18 21:01:46 ip-172-31-20-123 hadoop-hdfs-namenode[9683]: Started Hadoop namenode:[  OK  ]
Aug 18 21:01:46 ip-172-31-20-123 systemd[1]: Started Hadoop namenode.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.
EMR 4.x - 5.29.0
Example : List all running processes

The following example lists all running processes.

initctl list
EMR 2.x - 3.x
Example : List all running processes

The following example lists all running processes.

ls /etc/init.d/
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Example : List all running processes

The following example uses systemctl and specifies --type to view all processes.

systemctl --type=service
Example : List specific processes

The following example lists all processes with names that contain hadoop.

systemctl --type=service | grep -i hadoop

Example output:

 hadoop-hdfs-namenode.service           loaded active running Hadoop namenode
 hadoop-httpfs.service                  loaded active running Hadoop httpfs
 hadoop-kms.service                     loaded active running Hadoop kms
 hadoop-mapreduce-historyserver.service loaded active running Hadoop historyserver
 hadoop-state-pusher.service            loaded active running Daemon process that processes and serves EMR metrics data.
 hadoop-yarn-proxyserver.service        loaded active running Hadoop proxyserver
 hadoop-yarn-resourcemanager.service    loaded active running Hadoop resourcemanager
 hadoop-yarn-timelineserver.service     loaded active running Hadoop timelineserver
Example : See a detailed status report for a specific process

The following example displays a detailed status report for the hadoop-hdfs-namenode service.

sudo systemctl status hadoop-hdfs-namenode

Example output:

hadoop-hdfs-namenode.service - Hadoop namenode
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/hadoop-hdfs-namenode.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2021-08-18 21:01:46 UTC; 26min ago
 Main PID: 9733 (java)
    Tasks: 0
   Memory: 1.1M
   CGroup: /system.slice/hadoop-hdfs-namenode.service
           ‣ 9733 /etc/alternatives/jre/bin/java -Dproc_namenode -Xmx1843m -server -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError=kill -9 %p ...

Aug 18 21:01:37 ip-172-31-20-123 systemd[1]: Starting Hadoop namenode...
Aug 18 21:01:37 ip-172-31-20-123 su[9715]: (to hdfs) root on none
Aug 18 21:01:37 ip-172-31-20-123 hadoop-hdfs-namenode[9683]: starting namenode, logging to /var/log/hadoop-hdfs/ha...out
Aug 18 21:01:46 ip-172-31-20-123 hadoop-hdfs-namenode[9683]: Started Hadoop namenode:[  OK  ]
Aug 18 21:01:46 ip-172-31-20-123 systemd[1]: Started Hadoop namenode.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.

Stopping and restarting processes

After you determine which processes are running, you can stop and then restart them if necessary.

EMR 5.30.0 and 6.0.0 and later
Example : Stop a process

The following example stops the hadoop-hdfs-namenode process.

sudo systemctl stop hadoop-hdfs-namenode

You can query the status to verify that the process is stopped.

sudo systemctl status hadoop-hdfs-namenode

Example output:

hadoop-hdfs-namenode.service - Hadoop namenode
  Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/hadoop-hdfs-namenode.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
  Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2021-08-18 21:37:50 UTC; 8s ago
Main PID: 9733 (code=exited, status=143)
Example : Start a process

The following example starts the hadoop-hdfs-namenode process.

sudo systemctl start hadoop-hdfs-namenode

You can query the status to verify that the process is running.

sudo systemctl status hadoop-hdfs-namenode

Example output:

hadoop-hdfs-namenode.service - Hadoop namenode
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/hadoop-hdfs-namenode.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2021-08-18 21:38:24 UTC; 2s ago
  Process: 13748 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/hadoop-hdfs-namenode start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 13800 (java)
    Tasks: 0
   Memory: 1.1M
   CGroup: /system.slice/hadoop-hdfs-namenode.service
           ‣ 13800 /etc/alternatives/jre/bin/java -Dproc_namenode -Xmx1843m -server -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError=kill -9 %p...
EMR 4.x - 5.29.0
Example : Stop a running process

The following example stops the hadoop-hdfs-namenode service. 

sudo stop hadoop-hdfs-namenode
Example : Restart a stopped process

The following example restarts the hadoop-hdfs-namenode service. You must use the start command and not restart.

sudo start hadoop-hdfs-namenode
Example : Check the process status

The following fetches the status for hadoop-hdfs-namenode. You can use the status command to verify that the process has stopped or started. 

sudo status hadoop-hdfs-namenode
EMR 2.x - 3.x
Example : Stop an application process

The following example stops the hadoop-hdfs-namenode service, which is associated with the version of Amazon EMR installed on the cluster.

sudo /etc/init.d/hadoop-hdfs-namenode stop
Example : Restart an application process

The following example command restarts the hadoop-hdfs-namenode process:

sudo /etc/init.d/hadoop-hdfs-namenode start
Example : Stop an Amazon EMR process

The following example stops a process, such as instance-controller, which is not associated with the version of Amazon EMR on the cluster.

sudo /sbin/stop instance-controller
Example : Restart an Amazon EMR process

The following example restarts a process, such as instance-controller, which is not associated with the version of Amazon EMR on the cluster.

sudo /sbin/start instance-controller
Note

The /sbin/start, stop and restart commands are symlinks to /sbin/intictl. For more information about initctl, see the initctl man page by typing man initctl at the command prompt.

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Example : Stop a process

The following example stops the hadoop-hdfs-namenode process.

sudo systemctl stop hadoop-hdfs-namenode

You can query the status to verify that the process is stopped.

sudo systemctl status hadoop-hdfs-namenode

Example output:

hadoop-hdfs-namenode.service - Hadoop namenode
  Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/hadoop-hdfs-namenode.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
  Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2021-08-18 21:37:50 UTC; 8s ago
Main PID: 9733 (code=exited, status=143)
Example : Start a process

The following example starts the hadoop-hdfs-namenode process.

sudo systemctl start hadoop-hdfs-namenode

You can query the status to verify that the process is running.

sudo systemctl status hadoop-hdfs-namenode

Example output:

hadoop-hdfs-namenode.service - Hadoop namenode
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/hadoop-hdfs-namenode.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Wed 2021-08-18 21:38:24 UTC; 2s ago
  Process: 13748 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/hadoop-hdfs-namenode start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 13800 (java)
    Tasks: 0
   Memory: 1.1M
   CGroup: /system.slice/hadoop-hdfs-namenode.service
           ‣ 13800 /etc/alternatives/jre/bin/java -Dproc_namenode -Xmx1843m -server -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError=kill -9 %p...

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