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Owen O'Malley commented on HADOOP-3226:
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I think we should get rid of the spill versus merge combiner input/output 
record counters. I think it would just confuse users over the distinction 
between them.

> Run combiner when merging spills from map output
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-3226
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3226
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Chris Douglas
>            Assignee: Chris Douglas
>             Fix For: 0.18.0
>
>         Attachments: 3226-0.patch, 3226-1.patch, 3226-2.patch
>
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> When merging spills from the map, running the combiner should further 
> diminish the volume of data we send to the reduce.

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