What's your Hadoop config in terms of the maximum number of reducers?
It's a function of your available RAM on each node and numbers of nodes.

On 3/10/12 8:55 PM, WangRamon wrote:
> Hi Paritosh    I did the tests with 1 job and 5 jobs, they all have the same 
> problem, the job i'm running is the buildClusters one, I can see there are 73 
> reduce tasks created from the monitor GUI, but only 12 of them are running at 
> any time (the rest are in pending state), the task finished very quickly, 
> it's about no more than 18 seconds to finish every reduce task, so maybe 
> that's the cause? Thanks    Cheers  Ramon
>  > Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:14:15 +0530
>> From: [email protected]
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: Not all Mapper/Reducer slots are taken when running K-Means 
>> cluster
>>
>> And to answer the question about KMeans configuration :
>>
>> Kmeans has two jobs :
>> 1) builClusters : has a reducer and has no limitation on the number of
>> reducer tasks
>> 2) clusterData : executes if runClustering = true, has no reducer tasks
>>
>> On 11-03-2012 09:10, Paritosh Ranjan wrote:
>>> Can you run K-means jobs again ( all with the same block size ) and give
>>> same statistics for :
>>>
>>> a) only 1 job running
>>> b) 2 jobs running simultaneously
>>> c) 5 jobs running simultaneously
>>>
>>> On 10-03-2012 21:08, WangRamon wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi All  I submit 5  K-Means Jobs simultaneously, my Hadoop cluster have 42 
>>>> map and 42 reduce slots configured, I set the default reduce task per job 
>>>> as 73 (42 * 1.75), I find there are always about 12 of the reduce tasks 
>>>> are running at any time although there are 73 reduce tasks created for 
>>>> each of the K-Means job and i do have 42 reduce slots, it means at anytime 
>>>> i have about 30 reduce slots free. So i tried RecommenderJob from mahout 
>>>> again, i remember that job will use all my slots in my previouse test, and 
>>>> YES for this time, "RowSimilarityJob-CooccurrencesMapper-Reducer" do use 
>>>> all the slots 42 reduce and 42 map, so I'm wondering is that something 
>>>> configured in Mahout which cause this strange behavior? Any suggestions? 
>>>> Thanks in advance.   Btw, i'm using mahout-0.6 release. Cheers Ramon       
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