Not sure if what you're asking is possible or not, but you could experiment
with these params to see if you could achieve a similar effect.
<property>
<name>mapred.userlog.limit.kb</name>
<value>0</value>
<description>The maximum size of user-logs of each task in KB. 0 disables
the cap.
</description>
</property>
<property>
<name>mapred.userlog.retain.hours</name>
<value>24</value>
<description>The maximum time, in hours, for which the user-logs are to be
retained.
</description>
</property>
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:54 PM, abhishek sharma <absha...@usc.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Hadoop creates a directory (and some files) for each map and reduce
> task attempts in "logs/userlogs" on each tasktracker.
>
> Is there a way to configure Hadoop not to create these attempt logs?
>
> Thanks,
> Abhishek
>
