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Devaraj Das commented on HADOOP-1338:
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Yes reducing the job latency in the presence of reduce failures is the reason 
for having multiple waves.

> Improve the shuffle phase by using the "connection: keep-alive" and doing 
> batch transfers of files
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>                 Key: HADOOP-1338
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1338
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: mapred
>            Reporter: Devaraj Das
>             Fix For: 0.14.0
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> We should do transfers of map outputs at the granularity of  
> *total-bytes-transferred* rather than the current way of transferring a 
> single file and then closing the connection to the server. A single 
> TaskTracker might have a couple of map output files for a given reduce, and 
> we should transfer multiple of them (upto a certain total size) in a single 
> connection to the TaskTracker. Using HTTP-1.1's keep-alive connection would 
> help since it would keep the connection open for more than one file transfer. 
> We should limit the transfers to a certain size so that we don't hold up a 
> jetty thread indefinitely (and cause timeouts for other clients).
> Overall, this should give us improved performance.

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