Definitely set it yourself.  Pig does a poor job of calculating it.  The Pig 
calculation is only provided as a backstop when users forget (or don't yet 
know) to set it.  At some point in the future we'd like to provide good default 
parallel settings, but we have a ways to go before we get there.

Alan.

On Jul 4, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Jeremy Hanna wrote:

> According to 
> http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.8.1/cookbook.html#Use+the+Parallel+Features 
> there are two ways for pig to determine the number of reducers to use:
> 1- set default_parallel and/or PARALLEL
> 2- let pig calculate it
> 
> What do people generally use right now?  Is there a preferred option?

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