Taeho, I was going to suggest this change as well, but it's documented that "mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum" defaults to 2. Can you explain why Elia is only having one core utilized when this config option is set to 2?
Here is the documentation I'm referring to: <http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/r0.18.1/cluster_setup.html> Alex On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Taeho Kang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can have your node (tasktracker) running more than 1 task > simultaneously. > You may set "mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum" and > "mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum" properties found in > hadoop-site.xml file. You should change hadoop-site.xml file on all your > slave nodes depending on how many cores each slave has. For example, you > don't really want to have 8 tasks running at once on a 2 core machine. > > /Taeho > > On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Elia Mazzawi > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > hello, > > > > I have some dual core nodes, and I've noticed hadoop is only running 1 > > instance, and so is only using 1 on the CPU's on each node. > > is there a configuration to tell it to run more than once? > > or do i need to turn each machine into 2 nodes? > > > > Thanks. > > >
