Rod Taylor wrote:
On machines with more than 1 CPU it is useful to run more than a single instance of Nutch under the same user.
With MapReduce on multi-CPU machines it probably makes more sense to set mapred.tasktracker.tasks.maxiumum, 2 by default. This determines the number of tasks a tasktracker will execute simultaneously. Each task is run in a separate JVM.
That said, the patch is still good and I've committed it. Doug
