I did restart TaskTracker after  setting 
mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum.


But I have been  using 
Configuration.setInt("mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum",6).

When I set mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum to 6 in 

mapred-site.xml, I see 6 concurrent map tasks running. 


That  solves my problem !


Thanks! 


Shing 

 


----- Original Message -----
From: Harsh J <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]; Shing Hing Man <[email protected]>
Cc: 
Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: Pseudo distributed mode : How to increase no of concurrent map task

Did you restart your TaskTrackers after increasing the
mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum value in mapred-site.xml? It is a
TaskTracker property, not a per-job one.

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Shing Hing Man <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am running Hadoop 1.03 in Pseudo  distributed mode, on a quad core Xeon 
> processor with
> hyper-threading enabled.
> When I  submit a job to process a file of  size about 1.6 GB,  only two 
> concurrent map tasks
> are running.
> I have set
> mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum to 6.
> In job.xml,
> mapred.map.tasks =25
> mapred.min.split.size =0
> dfs.block.size = 64MB
> How to increase the the number of concurrent map task ?
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance !
>
> Shing
>



-- 
Harsh J

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