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Sameer Paranjpye commented on HADOOP-1965:
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We need to benchmark anything we implement for this issue. The interesting use 
case is tasks that spill since these make no progress while the sort/spill is 
happening. Running more total maps / more concurrent maps per node are also 
options. But these seem like orthogonal strategies, improving latency will help 
regardless, no?



> Handle map output buffers better
> --------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HADOOP-1965
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-1965
>             Project: Hadoop
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: mapred
>            Reporter: Devaraj Das
>            Assignee: Amar Kamat
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> Today, the map task stops calling the map method while sort/spill is using 
> the (single instance of) map output buffer. One improvement that can be done 
> to improve performance of the map task is to have another buffer for writing 
> the map outputs to, while sort/spill is using the first buffer.

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