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title: "Suppose Hadoop spawned 100 tasks for a job and one of the task failed. What will Hadoop do?"  
description: "Suppose Hadoop spawned 100 tasks for a job and one of the task failed. What will Hadoop do?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2015-01-20  
updated: 2020-09-23  
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# Suppose Hadoop spawned 100 tasks for a job and one of the task failed. What will Hadoop do?

**It will restart the task** again on some other TaskTracker and only if the task fails more than four (default setting and can be changed) times will it kill the job.

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

**It will restart the task** again on some other TaskTracker and only if the task fails more than four (default setting and can be changed) times will it kill the job.


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