Juwei Is there any error messages on your TaskTracker logs related to compression like 'Codec not found' or so ?
Regards Bejoy K S From handheld, Please excuse typos. -----Original Message----- From: Juwei Shi <shiju...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:48:08 To: <mapreduce-user@hadoop.apache.org> Reply-To: mapreduce-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Re: reduce output compression of Terasort We use LZO, so the value is mapred.output.compression.codec = com.hadoop.compression.lzo.LzoCodec No compressed file in HDFS. 2012/2/17 Bejoy Ks <bejoy.had...@gmail.com> > Hi Juwei > What is the value for mapred.output.compression.codec? It'd be > better to determine whether the output files are compressed by getting the > codec of the same and not just from the size of files. > > Regards > Bejoy.K.S > > > On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Juwei Shi <shiju...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am benchmarking the cluster using the Terasort package of Hadoop >> 0.20.2. I enabled compression for both map output (* >> mapred.compress.map.output*) and reduce output (*mapred.output.compress*). >> I checked the parameter in Job.xml, both are true. I can see that the >> compression for Map output works, but it seems that the compression for >> reduce output does not work. The output of the job on HDFS is also 1TB. >> >> Thanks! >> >> - Juwei >> > > -- - Juwei Shi (史巨伟)