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Allen Wittenauer resolved MAPREDUCE-388.
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Resolution: Incomplete
Closing this as stale.
> pipes combiner has a large memory footprint
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> Key: MAPREDUCE-388
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-388
> Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
> Issue Type: Bug
> Reporter: Christian Kunz
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> Pipes combiner implementation can have a huge memory overhead compared to the
> spill size. How much, depends on the record size. E.g., an application asks
> for >2GB memory when io.sort.mb=500, key is 16 bytes, and value is 4 bytes.
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