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Doug Cutting commented on HADOOP-492:
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> I don't think we can safely assume that the right Enum type will be available
> everywhere.
No, we can't, so String-based access is required. But we might also include
Enum-based access as an option, so that if folks do have the Enum in hand they
can use it to get counter values, no?
> Global counters
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> Key: HADOOP-492
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-492
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: mapred
> Reporter: arkady borkovsky
> Assigned To: David Bowen
> Fix For: 0.12.0
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> Attachments: counters1.patch, counters2.patch, counters3.patch
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> It would be nice to have map / reduce job keep aggregated counts for
> arbitrary events occuring in its tasks -- the numer of records processed, the
> numer of exceptions of a specific type, the number of sentences in passive
> voice, whatever the jobs finds useful.
> This can be implemented by tasks periodically sending <name, value> pairs to
> the jobtracker (in some implementations such messages are piggy-backed on the
> heartbeats), so that the job tracker stores all the latests values from each
> task and aggregates them on a request. It should also make the aggregated
> values available at the job end. The value for a task would be flushed when
> the task fails.
> #491 and #490 may be related to this one.
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