I think that Anthony is right. Task capacity has to been set at mapred-default.html, and restart the cluster.
Anthony Urso 2011/7/2 <praveen.pe...@nokia.com> > Are you sure? AFAIK all mapred.xxx properties can be set via job config. I > also read on yahoo tutorial that this property can be either set in > hadoop-site.XML or job config. May be someone can confirm this who have > really used this property. > > Praveen > > On Jul 1, 2011, at 4:46 PM, "ext Anthony Urso" <antho...@cs.ucla.edu> > wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:03 PM, <praveen.pe...@nokia.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I am using hadoop 0.20.2. I am setting the property > >> mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum = 4 (same for reduce also) on my > job > >> conf but I am still seeing max of only 2 map and reduce tasks on each > node. > >> I know my machine can run 4 maps and 4 reduce tasks in parallel. Is this > a > >> bug in 0.20.2 or am I doing something wrong? > >> > >> > > > > If I remember correctly, you have to set this in your hadoop-site.xml > > and restart your job tracker and task trackers. > > > >> > >> Configuration conf = new Configuration(); > >> > >> conf.set("mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum", "4"); > >> > >> conf.set("mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum", "4"); > >> > >> > >> > >> Thanks > >> > >> Praveen > -- - Juwei