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Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-3748:
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> 200 nodes cluster: 60% increase in avg network pgk_in traffic in the JT box 
> when using counters (with 10x peeks).

But is this significant?  Does the performance of the JT or anything else 
significantly improve when counters are disabled?

> Flag to make tasks to send counter information only at the end of the task
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>
>                 Key: HADOOP-3748
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3748
>             Project: Hadoop Core
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: mapred
>         Environment: all
>            Reporter: Alejandro Abdelnur
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> Currently counters are streaming from the task to the jobtracker as the task 
> progresses. If the number of counters is large this has a significant impact 
> on the network traffic as well as in the JobTracker load.
> The should be a flag, for example by counter-group, that indicates that the 
> counters are to be reported at the end of the task. By default this flag 
> should be set to false for all counter-groups maintaining the current 
> behavior.

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