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Owen O'Malley commented on HADOOP-2774:
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Doug, it is the number of records written to disk, which clearly is the same as
the number read + 1.
Runping, my proposed counters gives you the size of the spills, which is much
more important than the number of spills. By dividing by the number of either
map outputs or reduce inputs, you would get the effective spill count.
> Add counters to show number of key/values that have been sorted and merged in
> the maps and reduces
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> Key: HADOOP-2774
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2774
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Owen O'Malley
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> For each *pass* of the sort and merge, I would like a count of the number of
> records. So for example, if the map output 100 records and they were sorted
> once, the counter would be 100. If it spilled twice and was merged together,
> it would be 200. Clearly in a multi-level merge, it may not be a multiple of
> the number of map output records. This would let the users easily see if they
> have values like io.sort.mb or io.sort.factor set too low.
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