You should be able hive > set mapred.map.tasks=1000 hive > set mapred.reduce.tasks=5
In some cases mappers is controlled by input files (pre hadoop 20) On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Sagi, Lee <ls...@shopping.com> wrote: > Is there a way to throttle hive queries? > > For example, I want to tell hive to not use more then 1000 mappers and 5 > reducers for a particular query (or session). >
