its the total number of reducers not active reducers. 
If you specify lower number  each reducer gets more data to process.
-- 
Harsha


On Friday, February 1, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Mohit Anchlia wrote:

> Thanks! Is there a downside of reducing number of reducers? I am trying to
> alleviate high CPU.
> 
> With low reducers using parallel clause does it mean that more data is
> processed by each reducer or does it mean how many reducers can be active
> at one time
> 
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Harsha <[email protected] 
> (mailto:[email protected])> wrote:
> 
> > Mohit,
> > you can use PARALLEL clause to specify reduce tasks. More info here
> > http://pig.apache.org/docs/r0.8.1/cookbook.html#Use+the+Parallel+Features
> > 
> > --
> > Harsha
> > 
> > 
> > On Friday, February 1, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Mohit Anchlia wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there a way to specify max number of reduce tasks that a job should
> > span
> > > in pig script without having to restart the cluster?
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 


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