Hi Matt, it might be that the parameter does not end up in the final
configuration for a number of reasons. Can you check the job config xml in
jt:/var/log/hadoop/history or in the JT UI and see what the
mapred.reduce.tasks setting is? -- Alex K
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Matt Tanquary <matt.tanqu...@gmail.com>wrote:
> I am using the following to set my number of reduce tasks, however when I
> run my job it's always using just 1 reducer.
>
> conf.setInt("mapred.reduce.tasks", 20);
>
> 1 reducer will never finish this job. Please help me to understand why the
> setting I choose is not used.
>
> Thanks,
> -M@
>
