Hadoop setup for pig development

[Charlie Groves]

I'm using a local, single-node hadoop cluster to run pig's tests as I  
work on it.  Is this the preferred way to run the tests?  I ask  
because with this setup it takes several minutes for many of the  
tests to complete, which is different than the normal quick unit test  
cycle I'm used to.

I have set mapred.map.max.attempts and mapred.reduce.max.attempts to  
1, so if I do break something, it fails after one attempt rather than  
several.  Is there anything else I can tweak in the setup to speed  
things up?

Thanks,
Charlie