Re: Problems increasing number of tasks per node

[Arun C Murthy]

On Sep 23, 2008, at 2:21 PM, Joel Welling wrote:
Stopping and restarting the mapred service should push the new .xml  
file
out, should it not?  I've done 'bin/mapred-stop.sh',

No, you need to run 'bin/mapred-stop.sh', push it out to all the  
machines and then do 'bin/mapred-start.sh'.

You do see it in your job's config - but that config isn't used by the  
TaskTrackers. They use the config in their HADOOP_CONF_DIR; which is  
why you'd need to push it to all machines.

Arun