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Olga Natkovich updated PIG-729:
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    Fix Version/s: 0.8.0

> Use of default parallelism
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>                 Key: PIG-729
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-729
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: impl
>    Affects Versions: 0.3.0
>         Environment: Hadoop 0.20
>            Reporter: Santhosh Srinivasan
>             Fix For: 0.8.0
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> Currently, if the user does not specify the number of reduce slots using the 
> parallel keyword, Pig lets Hadoop decide on the default number of reducers. 
> This model worked well with dynamically allocated clusters using HOD and for 
> static clusters where the default number of reduce slots was explicitly set. 
> With Hadoop 0.20, a single static cluster will be shared amongst a number of 
> queues. As a result, a common scenario is to end up with default number of 
> reducers set to one (1).
> When users migrate to Hadoop 0.20, they might see a dramatic change in the 
> performance of their queries if they had not used the parallel keyword to 
> specify the number of reducers. In order to mitigate such circumstances, Pig 
> can support one of the following:
> 1. Specify a default parallelism for the entire script.
> This option will allow users to use the same parallelism for all operators 
> that do not have the explicit parallel keyword. This will ensure that the 
> scripts utilize more reducers than the default of one reducer. On the down 
> side, due to data transformations, usually operations that are performed 
> towards the end of the script will need smaller number of reducers compared 
> to the operators that appear at the beginning of the script.
> 2. Display a warning message for each reduce side operator that does have the 
> use of the explicit parallel keyword. Proceed with the execution.
> 3. Display an error message indicating the operator that does not have the 
> explicit use of the parallel keyword. Stop the execution.
> Other suggestions/thoughts/solutions are welcome.

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