Jay, Yep even the local mode does read mapred-site.xml, and a few properties supplied it in apply to LocalJobRunner as well.
Yes the per-job override will not work for raising limits, as that wouldn't make sense as a 'limit' then (Although Android has a different sense of that I've noticed: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/StrictMode.html, which works for its devs and is a different playground :)) On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Jay Vyas <jayunit...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ahhh I now know the answer : My solution : > > 1) Get a simple mapred config file and remove all parameters but the one i > need to set for my local mode. > 2) Put the mapred site config .xml in my classpath. > 3) Run my application. > > The JobConf I assume SHOULD NOT work because this parameter is specifically > meant to defy and job specific configuration. > > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:03 PM, Serge Blazhiyevskyy < > serge.blazhiyevs...@nice.com> wrote: > >> You should be able to set that param on JobConf object >> >> Regards, >> Serge >> >> On 5/9/12 1:09 PM, "Jay Vyas" <jayunit...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >Hi guys : I need to set a cluster configuration parameter (specifically, >> >the "mapreduce.job.counters.limit") .... >> >.... Easy ... right ? >> > >> >Well.... one problem : I'm running hadoop in local-mode ! >> > >> >So How can I simulate this parameter so that my local mode allows me to >> >use >> >non-default cluster configruation parameters ? >> > >> > >> >-- >> >Jay Vyas >> >MMSB/UCHC >> >> > > > -- > Jay Vyas > MMSB/UCHC -- Harsh J
