This property applies to a tasktraker rather that an individual job.
Therefore it needs to be set in the mapred-site.xml and the daemon
restarted.
-Joey
On Jul 1, 2011 7:01 PM, <praveen.pe...@nokia.com> wrote:
> Are you sure? AFAIK all mapred.xxx properties can be set via job config. I
also read on yahoo tutorial that this property can be either set in
hadoop-site.XML or job config. May be someone can confirm this who have
really used this property.
>
> Praveen
>
> On Jul 1, 2011, at 4:46 PM, "ext Anthony Urso" <antho...@cs.ucla.edu>
wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 1:03 PM, <praveen.pe...@nokia.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am using hadoop 0.20.2. I am setting the property
>>> mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum = 4 (same for reduce also) on my
job
>>> conf but I am still seeing max of only 2 map and reduce tasks on each
node.
>>> I know my machine can run 4 maps and 4 reduce tasks in parallel. Is this
a
>>> bug in 0.20.2 or am I doing something wrong?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> If I remember correctly, you have to set this in your hadoop-site.xml
>> and restart your job tracker and task trackers.
>>
>>>
>>> Configuration conf = new Configuration();
>>>
>>> conf.set("mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum", "4");
>>>
>>> conf.set("mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum", "4");
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Praveen
