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Runping Qi commented on HADOOP-206: ----------------------------------- If LocalJobRunner does not force to set numReduceTasks to 1, unit tests TestMapRed and TestRecordMR failed due to out of memory in reduce: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at org.apache.hadoop.io.DataOutputBuffer$Buffer.write(DataOutputBuffer.j ava:53) at org.apache.hadoop.io.DataOutputBuffer.write(DataOutputBuffer.java:91) at org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Reader.nextRawKey(SequenceFile.java :1621) at org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Sorter$SegmentDescriptor.nextRawKey (SequenceFile.java:2573) at org.apache.hadoop.io.SequenceFile$Sorter$MergeQueue.next(SequenceFile .java:2358) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask$ValuesIterator.getNext(ReduceTask .java:207) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask$ValuesIterator.next(ReduceTask.ja va:170) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask$ReduceValuesIterator.next(ReduceT ask.java:245) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.TestMapRed$RandomCheckReducer.reduce(TestMap Red.java:155) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ReduceTask.run(ReduceTask.java:354) at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.LocalJobRunner$Job.run(LocalJobRunner.java:1 54) Plus, LocalJobRunning calls only one reducer with partition equal 0. That part has to be fixed too. > local map-reduce job limited to single reducer > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-206 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-206 > Project: Hadoop > Issue Type: Bug > Components: mapred > Affects Versions: 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.2.0 > Environment: local job tracker > Reporter: Yoram Arnon > Assigned To: Runping Qi > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 0.13.0 > > > when mapred.job.tracker is set to 'local', my setNumReduceTasks call is > ignored, and the number of reduce tasks is set at 1. > This prevents me from locally debugging my partition function, which tries to > partition based on the number of reduce tasks. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.