there is only 10186 partitions in the metadata store (select count(1) from PARTITIONS; in mysql), I think it is not the problem.
2011/8/10 Aggarwal, Vaibhav <vagg...@amazon.com> > Do you have a lot of partitions in your table?**** > > Time taken to process the partitions before submitting the job is > proportional to number of partitions.**** > > ** ** > > There is a patch I submitted recently as an attempt to alleviate this > problem:**** > > ** ** > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2299**** > > ** ** > > If that is not the case, even I would be interested in root cause of large > query startup time.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* air [mailto:cnwe...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Tuesday, August 09, 2011 1:19 AM > *To:* user@hive.apache.org > *Subject:* Fwd: CDH3 U1 Hive Job-commit very slow**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: *air* <cnwe...@gmail.com> > Date: 2011/8/9 > Subject: CDH3 U1 Hive Job-commit very slow > To: CDH Users <cdh-u...@cloudera.org> > > > when I submit a ql to hive, it is a very long time until it really submit > the job to the hadoop cluster, what may cause this problem ?* *thank you > for your help.* > > hive> select count(1) from log_test where src='test' and ds='2011-08-04'; > Total MapReduce jobs = 1 > Launching Job 1 out of 1 > Number of reduce tasks determined at compile time: 1 > In order to change the average load for a reducer (in bytes): > set hive.exec.reducers.bytes.per.reducer=<number> > In order to limit the maximum number of reducers: > set hive.exec.reducers.max=<number> > In order to set a constant number of reducers: > set mapred.reduce.tasks=<number> * > <------------------------stay here for a long time.. > > -- > Knowledge Mangement .**** > > > > > -- > Knowledge Mangement .**** > -- Knowledge Mangement .