https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Hive-queries-taking-LONG-time-to-start/m-p/155050#M117489 <P>Lately, we've seen intermittent behavior where Hive queries take a very long time to start.</P><P>For example, I submitted a query via Hive CLI on an edge node about 5 minutes ago, and it still isn't in the application manager. There is NOTHING else running. Zero use of our cluster happening right now.</P><P>Usually, the queries eventually start.</P><P>Ocassionally, I get an error like: FAILED: Execution Error, return code 2 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.mr.MapRedTask</P><P>MapReduce Jobs Launched:</P><P>Stage-Stage-1: FAIL</P><P>Can anyone help me figure out why this is happening?</P> Tue, 14 Mar 2017 00:30:28 GMT zack_riesland 2017-03-14T00:30:28Z