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Runping Qi commented on HADOOP-492:
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If we change Reporter method to:
   void incrCounter(Enum key, long amount); 

How does a user to accumulate on his/her specific counters?
I think it is better to also have:

  void incrCounter(String name, long amount); 



> Global counters
> ---------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-492
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-492
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: mapred
>            Reporter: arkady borkovsky
>         Assigned To: David Bowen
>
> It would be nice to have map / reduce job keep aggregated counts for 
> arbitrary events occuring in its tasks -- the numer of records processed, the 
> numer of exceptions of a specific type, the number of sentences in passive 
> voice, whatever the jobs finds useful.
> This can be implemented by tasks periodically sending <name, value> pairs to 
> the jobtracker (in some implementations such messages are piggy-backed on the 
> heartbeats), so that the job tracker stores all the latests values from each 
> task and aggregates them on a request.  It should also make the aggregated 
> values available at the job end.  The value for a task would be flushed when 
> the task fails.
> #491 and #490 may be related to this one.

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