RE: does hadoop always respect setNumReduceTasks?

2012-03-10 Thread WangRamon
Jane, i think you have mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum or mapred.reduce.tasks set to 1 in your local, and have them set to some other values in the emr, that's why you always get one reducer in your local and not on the emr. CheersRamon Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2012 21:30:26 -0500 Subject:

how to add more than one user to hadoop with DFS permissions?

2012-03-10 Thread Austin Chungath
I have a 2 node cluster running hadoop 0.20.205. There is only one user , username: hadoop of group: hadoop. What is the easiest way to add one more user say hadoop1 with DFS permissions set as true? I did the following to create a user in the master node. sudo adduser --ingroup hadoop hadoop1

Re: how to add more than one user to hadoop with DFS permissions?

2012-03-10 Thread Harsh J
Austin, 1. Enable HDFS Permissions. In hdfs-site.xml, set dfs.permissions as true. 2. To commission any new user, as HDFS admin (the user who runs the NameNode process), run: hadoop fs -mkdir /user/username hadoop fs -chown username:username /user/username 3. For default file/dir permissions to

Re: how to add more than one user to hadoop with DFS permissions?

2012-03-10 Thread Austin Chungath
Thanks Harsh :) On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Harsh J ha...@cloudera.com wrote: Austin, 1. Enable HDFS Permissions. In hdfs-site.xml, set dfs.permissions as true. 2. To commission any new user, as HDFS admin (the user who runs the NameNode process), run: hadoop fs -mkdir

Re: mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum not working

2012-03-10 Thread Mohit Anchlia
Thanks. Looks like there are some parameters that I can use at client level and others need cluster wide setting. Is there a place where I can see all the config parameters with description of level of changes that can be done at client level vs at cluster level? On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:39 PM,

Why most of the free reduce slots are NOT used for my Hadoop Jobs? Thanks.

2012-03-10 Thread WangRamon
Sorry for the duplicate, i have sent this mail to map/reduce mail list but haven't got any useful response yet, so i think maybe i can get some suggestions here, thanks. Hi All I'm using Hadoop-0.20-append, the cluster contains 3 nodes, for each node I have 14 map and 14 reduce slots, here