Hi Dennis, You are right. Currently, that is what happens. Regards Mahadev
-----Original Message----- From: Dennis Kubes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: MapReduce Polling Am I right in understanding that MapReduce tasks are not pushed to TaskTrackers by the JobTracker, but that the TaskTrackers continually poll the JobTracker for a Task to run and the JobTracker then hands off a Task to the TaskTracker based on load, pending tasks, etc? Dennis
