These look like Hadoop params, to the hadoop command? why wouldn't
hadoop be parsing those, or, why would the Job command have to shuttle
them to Hadoop? I thought these were typically set in the config .xml
files anyhow.

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:43 PM, Aurora Skarra-Gallagher
<aur...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using the PFPGrowth code 
> (http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-157) from Mahout 0.3 and it 
> works fine on my local box. However, when I try to get it to run on our grid 
> cluster, it amazingly does not allow any parameters to be passed to Hadoop. 
> When I look at the code 
> (mahout/core/src/main/java/org/apache/mahout/fpm/pfpgrowth/PFPGrowth.java), I 
> see that there is no way to pass custom configuration parameters (like 
> -Dmapred.job.queue.name=X or -libjars or any other parameter for that matter).
>
> I am shocked that it would be done this way. To get this to work, I need to 
> go change the actual PFPGrowth.java file, add my conf.set("key", "val") 
> lines, and recompile. Is there any other way to do this? Why would it be 
> written in such a way that all hadoop parameters are disallowed?
>
> Thanks,
> Aurora
>

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