JVM reuse can be enabled by conf.setLong("mapred.job.reuse.jvm.num.tasks", -1);
However, I do not think you can reuse variables/objects from the previous task that ran in the JVM. Jothi On 6/2/09 12:01 PM, "Jianmin Woo" <jianmin_...@yahoo.com> wrote: > It's cool to address the job overhead in JVM reuse way. You mentioned that the > code(and variables?) are kept in JIT cache, so can we refer the variables in > the last iteration in some way? I am really caurious how this works in coding > level. Could you please help to point out some material/resources I can start > to get to know the usage of this feature? Is this implemented in the current > 0.20 version? I am pretty fresh to haoop. :-)