I thought it was, because of FileBytesWritten counter. Thanks for the clarification. Mark
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:23 AM, Harsh J <ha...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Mark, > > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Mark question <markq2...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > This is puzzling me ... > > > > With a mapper producing output of size ~ 400 MB ... which one is > supposed > > to be faster? > > > > 1) output collector: which will write to local file then copy to HDFS > since > > I don't have reducers. > > A regular map-only job does not write to the local FS, it writes to > the HDFS directly (i.e., a local DN if one is found). > > -- > Harsh J >