we have altogether 15G data to process every day (multiple M/R jobs running on the same set of data). currently we split this data to 60 files (but we can also split them to 120 files).
we have 15 machines with quad core. Thanks, Lior On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Harsh J <qwertyman...@gmail.com> wrote: > 15 G single Gzip files? Consider block sizes in 0.5 GB+. But it also > depends on the processing slot-power you have. Higher blocks would > lead to higher usage of processing capacity, although with higher load > to the NameNode in maintaining lots of blocks (and replicas per) per > file. > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Lior Schachter <li...@infolinks.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > We plan a 100T cluster with M/R jobs running on 15G gzip files. > > Should we configure HDFS block to be 128M or 256M. > > > > Thanks, > > Lior > > > > > > -- > Harsh J > http://harshj.com >
