I understand that setup and cleanup methods of Mapper/Reducer are called for each task, so if you have 20 mappers running, the setup / cleanup will be called for each one.
Is there a setup like method to for the entire mapreduce program. Basically i want to open only 1 connectionto a HBase table for the entire Mapreduce job so that all map tasks need not open a separate connection. -- View this message in context: http://apache-hbase.679495.n3.nabble.com/setup-method-in-Mapreduce-Program-tp4065292.html Sent from the HBase User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
