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Sebastian Schelter commented on MAHOUT-473:
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Hui,

Can you follow these steps on this issue:

# Modify your local copy of mahout to include the changes you propose
# build Mahout and run your job again with your modified version
# upload a patch containing your changes and give us some details on the 
performance increase you encountered
 
Have a look at this website: 
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/How+To+Contribute

> add parameter -Dmapred.reduce.tasks when call job RowSimilarityJob in 
> RecommenderJob
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MAHOUT-473
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-473
>             Project: Mahout
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Collaborative Filtering
>    Affects Versions: 0.4
>            Reporter: Han Hui Wen 
>             Fix For: 0.4
>
>         Attachments: screenshot-1.jpg
>
>
> In RecommenderJob
> {code:title=RecommenderJob.java|borderStyle=solid}
>     int numberOfUsers = TasteHadoopUtils.readIntFromFile(getConf(), 
> countUsersPath);
>     if (shouldRunNextPhase(parsedArgs, currentPhase)) {
>       /* Once DistributedRowMatrix uses the hadoop 0.20 API, we should 
> refactor this call to something like
>        * new DistributedRowMatrix(...).rowSimilarity(...) */
>       try {
>         RowSimilarityJob.main(new String[] { "-Dmapred.input.dir=" + 
> maybePruneItemUserMatrixPath.toString(),
>             "-Dmapred.output.dir=" + similarityMatrixPath.toString(), 
> "--numberOfColumns",
>             String.valueOf(numberOfUsers), "--similarityClassname", 
> similarityClassname, "--maxSimilaritiesPerRow",
>             String.valueOf(maxSimilaritiesPerItemConsidered + 1), 
> "--tempDir", tempDirPath.toString() });
>       } catch (Exception e) {
>         throw new IllegalStateException("item-item-similarity computation 
> failed", e);
>       }
>     }
> {code}
> We have not passed parameter -Dmapred.reduce.tasks when job RowSimilarityJob.
> It caused all three  RowSimilarityJob sub-jobs run using 1 map and 1 reduce, 
> so the sub jobs can not be scalable.

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