Re: Number of reducers

2012-08-28 Thread Harsh J
Ah, well, my bad. See instead the description for mapred.reduce.tasks in mapred-default.xml, which states this: "Typically set to 99% of the cluster's reduce capacity, so that if a node fails the reduces can still be executed in a single wave." FWIW, I set it manually to the level of parallelism I

Re: Number of reducers

2012-08-28 Thread abhiTowson cal
hi harsh, Thanks for the reply.I get your first and second points and coming to third point how is it specific to a job? My question was specific to job. Regards Abhishek On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Harsh J wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Abhishek wrote: >> Hi all, >>

Re: Number of reducers

2012-08-27 Thread Harsh J
Hi, On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:32 AM, Abhishek wrote: > Hi all, > > I just want to know that, based on what factor map reduce framework decides > number of reducers to launch for a job The framework does not auto-determine the number of reducers for a job. That is purely user-or-client-program-s