Oh, I see. Thanks. - Jianmin
________________________________ From: Sharad Agarwal <shara...@yahoo-inc.com> To: core-user@hadoop.apache.org Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2009 12:59:12 PM Subject: Re: question about when shuffle/sort start working Jianmin Woo wrote: > > Do you have some sample on the re-usage of static variables? You can define static variables in your Mapper/Reducer class. Static variables will survive till the jvm is live. So multiple tasks of same job running in a single jvm would able to share those. - Sharad