On Thu, Feb 7, 2008 at 10:07, Owen O'Malley <o...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote:
> Setting it to 0 skips all of the buffering, sorting, merging, and shuffling. > It passes the objects straight from the mapper to the output format, which > writes it straight to hdfs. I just tried to set number or Reduce tasks to 0, but Job Tracker shows Reduce task working, doing "reduce > sort". I have a big data set and it takes a while. It would be a good to find a way to skip it. Vadim
