done: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6109 i attached the patch as a file (vs submitting) as that is what the doc suggested. could you please review it, and if all's well i'll submit it.
thanks, thushara On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Philip Zeyliger <phi...@cloudera.com>wrote: > On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Thushara Wijeratna<thu...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > i fixed this on my system - Text.append degraded for large buffers (225M > > line could not be processed for over 20 min). > > the fix was to substitute a ByteArrayOutputStream and now the map/reduce > > runs in under 30s. > > > > should i submit a patch for this? what is the process? > > Please do contribute patches! The instructions are at > http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/HowToContribute . You'll end up > submitting a JIRA, writing a patch, including some tests (and, for > performance issues, some performance numbers and steps to reproduce). > > -- Philip >