On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Chris Douglas wrote: > This is normal behavior. The Reducer is guaranteed to receive all the > results for its partition in sorted order. No reduce can start until all the > maps are completed, since any running map could emit a result that would > violate the order for the results it currently has. -C
_Reducers_ usually start almost immediately and start downloading data emitted by mappers as they go. This is their first phase. Their second phase can start only after completion of all mappers. In their second phase, they're sorting received data, and in their third phase they're doing real reduction. -- WBR, Mikhail Yakshin
