Hello! A while back, Java 1.6, the size of the internal internal file-reading buffers were bumped-up to 8192 bytes.
http://grepcode.com/file/repository.grepcode.com/java/root/jdk/openjdk/6-b14/java/io/BufferedInputStream.java Perhaps it's time to update Hadoop to at least this default level too. :) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2705 Thanks, David
