(moving to mapreduce-user@, bcc'ing common-user@) Hi Joey -
You'll want to change the value on all of your servers running tasktrackers and then restart each tasktracker to reread the configuration. cheers, -James On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Joey Krabacher <jkrabac...@gmail.com>wrote: > I have looked up how to up this value on the web and have tried all > suggestions to no avail. > > Any help would be great. > > Here is some background: > > Version: 0.20.2, r911707 > Compiled: Fri Feb 19 08:07:34 UTC 2010 by chrisdo > > Nodes: 5 > Current Map Task Capacity : 10 <--- this is what I want to increase. > > What I have tried : > > Adding > <property> > <name>mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum</name> > <value>8</value> > <final>true</final> > </property> > to mapred-site.xml on NameNode. I also added this to one of the > datanodes for the hell of it and that didn't work either. > > Thanks. >