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Todd Lipcon commented on MAPREDUCE-1608:
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I'm not entirely against a manual trigger, but this suggests that our current 
tuning knobs are insufficient. What are the cases when users would want to do 
this manually, and why don't our heuristics do it for them? I'm skeptical that 
humans can do a better job than the scheduler at deciding when speculation is 
necessary.

> Allow users to do speculative execution of a task manually
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>
>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-1608
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1608
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Scott Chen
>            Assignee: Scott Chen
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> Speculative execution improves the latency of the job. Sometimes the job has 
> few very slow reducers. Spending a little more resource on speculative tasks 
> can improve the latency a lot. It will be nice that the users can manually 
> select one task and force the speculative execution on that task just like we 
> can manually kill/fail task.
> The proposal is add link says "speculate" in taskdetails.jsp page where we do 
> "kill/fail".
> Thoughts? 

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