Re: Combiner function

2010-08-02 Thread Nick Jones
Hi Jackob, A combiner acts a lot like a reduce step but it's executed on the mapper with in-memory data. I've seen a reduction in job execution time by adding one. The one caveat to keep in mind is that it may or may not run on a particular map attempt. Nick On 8/2/2010 10:39 AM, Jackob

Re: Can I pass a user value to my reducer?

2010-03-15 Thread Nick Jones
On 3/15/2010 9:51 AM, Raymond Jennings III wrote: I need to pass a counter value to my reducer from the main program. Can this be done through the context parameter somehow? Have you tried serializing both the mapper output value and this counter as value in the key/value pair? Nick

Uneven DBInputFormat Splits

2010-03-10 Thread Nick Jones
or is this normal? Thanks Nick Jones

Re: some doubts

2010-03-05 Thread Nick Jones
the package information. (i.e. com.mycompany.mytool.election) Nick Jones Sent by radiation. On Mar 5, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Varun Thacker varunthacker1...@gmail.com wrote: This is how my jar looks like. Its name is Election.jar Directory:had...@varun:~/hadoop-0.20.1 Inside the jar

Re: Example for using DistributedCache class

2010-02-03 Thread Nick Jones
); DistributedCache.addCacheFile(new URI(/path/to/file2.txt), conf); DistributedCache.addCacheFile(new URI(/path/to/file3.txt), conf); ... } } Nick Jones Udaya Lakshmi wrote: Hi, As a newbie to hadoop, I am not able to figure out how to use DistributedCache class. Can someone give me a small code which

DBOutputFormat Speed Issues

2010-01-28 Thread Nick Jones
-by-one. How can I take advantage of MySQL's support of generating fewer insert statements with more values within each one? Thanks. -- Nick Jones