Yes, you should look at JobInProgress class, and search for 'speculative'. 
JobTracker already has logic to launch speculative copies for tasks which are 
progressing at a degraded rate relative to other tasks.

HTH,
+Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
Hortonworks Inc.
http://hortonworks.com/

On Nov 25, 2012, at 2:18 PM, Samaneh Shokuhi wrote:

> Hi ,
> 
> I need to detect the straggler map tasks specifically the last one to do
> some experiments .As i undestood job tracker is aware of all map tasks ,so
> is there any way to know the current  running map task is the
> last(straggler)  one  ?
> 
> 
> Samaneh

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