Hello, On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 7:29 PM, bikash sharma <sharmabiks...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > As a follow-up question, do map/reduce tasks run as threads or processes?
Every launched Task runs as an independent process, communicating over a network interface (lo) with the TaskTracker for reporting/etc. purposes. -- Harsh J www.harshj.com