One example is if you configure each spout to scan different files or
directories.
On May 13, 2014 4:28 AM, "Komal Thombare" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am new to storm and working on Storm word count. I have confusion while
> setting spout parallelism.
>
> I am using TopologyBuilder.setSpout() method to initialise and set
> parallelism hint for spout as 2 , where I am actually creating two
> instances of same spout.
>
> In Spout implementation I am reading data from a file which gets opened in
> the open() method of spout.
>
> Because of parallelism hint 2 file gets read twice and my word count
> output is doubled.
>
> So can anyone help me, to understand the way where I can have multiple
> instances of same spout(parallelism hint > 1) but file gets read only once
> and get correct word count output?Is there any other way out besides the
> normal storm topology?
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
> Komal Thombare
> Tata Consultancy Services Limited
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