You probably want to see this... http://hbase.apache.org/book.html#splitter
On 2/29/12 7:48 PM, "Vrushali C" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >I am using TableMapReduceUtil.initTableMapperJob to initiate a map reduce >job that scans the entire table and processes records in it. > >I wanted to know if I can control/hint to the framework for setting the >number of mappers. > >I was searching online and I see that JobConf's conf.setNumMapTasks(int >num) is deprecated. I tried setting the number of tasks in the code >c.set("mapred.map.tasks", "5"); or > > c.setInt("mapred.map.tasks", 5); > >but that doesn't work. > > >thanks >Vrushali
