Is there a way to limit the number of maps produced by HBaseStorage ?

[Vincent Barat]

Hi,

We are using HBaseStorage intensively to load data from tables 
having more than 100 regions.

HBaseStorage generates 1 map par region, and our cluster having 50 
map slots, it happens that our PIG scripts start 50 maps reading 
concurrently data from HBase.

The problem is that our HBase cluster has only 10 nodes, and thus 
the maps overload it (5 intensive readers per node is too much to 
bare).

So question: is there a way to say to PIG : limit the nb of maps to 
this maximum (ex: 10) ?
If not, how can I patch the code to do this ?

Thanks a lot for your help