Ok but you're talking about reducer output not mapper. It should not be
compressed in the first place.
On Mar 7, 2012 12:29 AM, "Luke Forehand" <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I want the results of the kmeans clustering to be uncompressed or
> compressed in a way that my users can natively decompress on their
> machines.  All our other hadoop jobs use Snappy compression when writing
> output, but our users don't have Snappy and don't particularly want to
> install it (especially because of problems installing on mac).  I'll try
> adding this param to the HADOOP_OPTS and in the longterm probably come up
> with a cleaner way to do this.  Thanks!
>
> -Luke
>
> On 3/6/12 6:24 PM, "Sean Owen" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >-D arguments are to the JVM so need to be set in HADOOP_OPTS (as I
> >recall). Or you configure this in your Hadoop config files.  It has no
> >meaning to the driver script. Why do you want to disable compression
> >after the mapper?
> >
> >On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Luke Forehand
> ><[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I tried the following and it does not work:
> >>
> >> mahout kmeans -i /mahout/sparse/test1/tfidf-vectors -c
> >> /mahout/initial-clusters/test1 -o /mahout/kmeans/test1 -k 10000 -cd 0.01
> >> -x 100 \
> >> -Dmapreduce.map.output.compress=false
> >>
> >> mahout kmeans -i /mahout/sparse/test1/tfidf-vectors -c
> >> /mahout/initial-clusters/test1 -o /mahout/kmeans/test1 -k 10000 -cd 0.01
> >> -x 100 \
> >>
> >>-Dmapred.output.compression.codec=org.apache.hadoop.io.compress.GzipCodec
> >>
> >>
> >> And still getting the default codec being used (which is Snappy in this
> >> case and I don't want the users to have to install native snappy which
> >>is
> >> why I'm trying to override this param).  Passing -Dkey=value on the
> >>mahout
> >> command line does not seem to have any effect on the mapreduce job
> >> configuration from what I can tell.  Any ideas?
> >>
> >> -Luke
> >>
> >> On 3/6/12 3:48 PM, "Sean Owen" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>>Mapper compression? -Dmapreduce.map.output.compress=false. I think the
> >>>key was mapred.output.compress in Hadoop 0.20.0.
> >>>I am not sure if there is reducer compression built-in, but, I could
> >>>have missed it.
> >>>
> >>>On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Luke Forehand
> >>><[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>> Hello,
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there a way to run the mahout kmeans program from the command line,
> >>>>with a parameter that will override (and disable) the reducer task
> >>>>compression?  I have tried several different ways of specifying -D
> >>>>parameter but I can't seem to get any options to pass through to the
> >>>>hadoop mapreduce configuration.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks!
> >>>> Luke
> >>
>
>

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