On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Ricky Ho <r...@adobe.com> wrote: > > I think using a single reducer causes the sorting to be done sequentially and > hence defeats the purpose of using Hadoop in the first place.
I agree, but this is just for testing. Actually I used two reducers in my example. > Perhaps you can use a different "partitioner" which partitions the key range > > into different subranges, with a different reducer work on each subrange. Yes, but prior to that, I want to make the basic numerical sorting work. It seems my args do not get passed to the partitioner class for some reason. -drd
