Bejoy, I've read somethere about keeping number of mapred.reduce.tasks below the reduce task capcity. Here is what I just tested:
Output 25Gb. 8DN cluster with 16 Map and Reduce Task Capacity: 1 Reducer - 22mins 4 Reducers - 11.5mins 8 Reducers - 5mins 10 Reducers - 7mins 12 Reducers - 6:5mins 16 Reducers - 5.5mins 8 Reducers have won the race. But Reducers at the max capacity was very clos. :) AK47 From: Bejoy KS [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 11:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: guessing number of reducers. Hi Sasha In general the number of reduce tasks is chosen mainly based on the data volume to reduce phase. In tools like hive and pig by default for every 1GB of map output there will be a reducer. So if you have 100 gigs of map output then 100 reducers. If your tasks are more CPU intensive then you need lesser volume of data per reducer for better performance results. In general it is better to have the number of reduce tasks slightly less than the number of available reduce slots in the cluster. Regards Bejoy KS Sent from handheld, please excuse typos. ________________________________ From: jamal sasha <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:38:38 -0500 To: [email protected]<[email protected]> ReplyTo: [email protected] Subject: guessing number of reducers. By default the number of reducers is set to 1.. Is there a good way to guess optimal number of reducers.... Or let's say i have tbs worth of data... mappers are of order 5000 or so... But ultimately i am calculating , let's say, some average of whole data... say average transaction occurring... Now the output will be just one line in one "part"... rest of them will be empty.So i am guessing i need loads of reducers but then most of them will be empty but at the same time one reducer won't suffice.. What's the best way to solve this.. How to guess optimal number of reducers.. Thanks NOTICE: This e-mail message and any attachments are confidential, subject to copyright and may be privileged. Any unauthorized use, copying or disclosure is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete and contact the sender immediately. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. AVIS : le pr?sent courriel et toute pi?ce jointe qui l'accompagne sont confidentiels, prot?g?s par le droit d'auteur et peuvent ?tre couverts par le secret professionnel. Toute utilisation, copie ou divulgation non autoris?e est interdite. Si vous n'?tes pas le destinataire pr?vu de ce courriel, supprimez-le et contactez imm?diatement l'exp?diteur. Veuillez penser ? l'environnement avant d'imprimer le pr?sent courriel
