If your cluster is heterogeneous like that, the you will most likely need to have different configurations per node. In other words, not every node needs to use the same mapred-site.xml.
On Mar 12, 2011, at 9:34 AM, xi yang <cosmicdancerf...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, Harsh. > I need to set node-A with 4 slots for map tasks, and node-B with 3 ... I > mean I want to specify different map task capacity for different nodes, how > to distinguish different nodes .... can we do that ? > > 2011/3/12 Harsh J <qwertyman...@gmail.com> > >> Q: Can we specify the map task capacity value for each node >> A: Yes, they are task-tracker properties after all. >> >> -- >> Harsh J >> www.harshj.com >>