On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Seunghwa Kang <s.k...@gatech.edu> wrote:
> Hello, > > I am running compute intensive job using Hadoop Streaming (hadoop > version 0.19.1), and my mapper input has several thousand small files. > My system has 4 nodes and 8 cores per node. > > I want to run 8 mappers per node to use all 8 cores, but whatever the > mapred.map.tasks value is, I can see only two mappers per node (when I > check it using ps -ef|grep mapper_name). > > Any suggestions? > Set mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum and mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum to your desired values -Todd