Also see following jira for more discussions: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3973
I will close this as new interface will address the issue. - Amir -----Original Message----- From: Owen O'Malley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Owen O'Malley Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 2:13 PM To: core-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: Stop MR jobs after N records have been produced ? On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:48 PM, Tarandeep Singh wrote: > Can I stop Map-Reduce jobs after mappers (or reducers) have produced N > records ? You could do this pretty easily by implementing a custom MapRunnable. There is no equivalent for reduces. The interface proposed in HADOOP-1230 would support that kind of application. See: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/core/trunk/src/mapred/org/apache/ hadoop/mapreduce/ Look at the new Mapper and Reducer interfaces. -- Owen