Are you running under cygwin on your data nodes as well? That is certain to cause performance problems. As James suggested, swapping to disk is going to be a killer, running on Windows with Celeron processors only compounds the problem. The Celeron processor is also sub-optimal for CPU intensive tasks
Rick On Apr 28, 2011 9:22 AM, "baran cakici" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have a Cluster with one Master(JobTracker and NameNode - Intel Core2Duo 2 > GB Ram) and four Slaves(Datanode and Tasktracker - Celeron 2 GB Ram). My > Inputdata are between 2GB-10GB and I read Inputdata in MapReduce line by > line. Now, I try to accelerate my System(Benchmark), but I'm not sure, if my > Configuration is correctly. Can you please just look, if it is ok? > > -mapred-site.xml > > <property> > <name>mapred.job.tracker</name> > <value>apple:9001</value> > </property> > > <property> > <name>mapred.child.java.opts</name> > <value>-Xmx512m -server</value> > </property> > > <property> > <name>mapred.job.tracker.handler.count</name> > <value>2</value> > </property> > > <property> > <name>mapred.local.dir</name> > <value>/cygwin/usr/local/hadoop-datastore/hadoop-Baran/mapred/local</value> > </property> > > <property> > <name>mapred.map.tasks</name> > <value>1</value> > </property> > > <property> > <name>mapred.reduce.tasks</name> > <value>4</value> > </property> > > <property> > <name>mapred.submit.replication</name> > <value>2</value> > </property> > > <property> > <name>mapred.system.dir</name> > <value>/cygwin/usr/local/hadoop-datastore/hadoop-Baran/mapred/system</value> > </property> > > <property> > <name>mapred.tasktracker.indexcache.mb</name> > <value>10</value> > </property> > > <property> > <name>mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum</name> > <value>1</value> > </property> > > <property> > <name>mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum</name> > <value>4</value> > </property> > > <property> > <name>mapred.temp.dir</name> > <value>/cygwin/usr/local/hadoop-datastore/hadoop-Baran/mapred/temp</value> > </property> > > <property> > <name>webinterface.private.actions</name> > <value>true</value> > </property> > > <property> > <name>mapred.reduce.slowstart.completed.maps</name> > <value>0.01</value> > </property> > > -hdfs-site.xml > > <property> > <name>dfs.block.size</name> > <value>268435456</value> > </property> > PS: I extended dfs.block.size, because I won 50% better performance with > this change. > > I am waiting for your comments... > > Regards, > > Baran
