Re: Tom White's book, 2nd ed. Which API?

2012-02-06 Thread Richard Nadeau
If you're looking to buy the 2nd edition you might want to wait, the third edition is in the works now. Regards, Rick On Feb 6, 2012 10:24 AM, "W.P. McNeill" wrote: > The second edition of Tom White's *Hadoop: The Definitive > Guide > * uses the ol

Re: Configuration for small Cluster

2011-05-02 Thread Richard Nadeau
Are you running under cygwin on your data nodes as well? That is certain to cause performance problems. As James suggested, swapping to disk is going to be a killer, running on Windows with Celeron processors only compounds the problem. The Celeron processor is also sub-optimal for CPU intensive ta

Re: Configuration for small Cluster

2011-05-02 Thread Richard Nadeau
>>> >>> On 2011-05-02, at 8:32 AM, baran cakici wrote: >>> >>> > yes, I am running under cygwin on my datanodes too. OS of Datanodes are >>> > Windows as well. >>> > >>> > What can I do exactly for a better Performance. I

Re: Configuration for small Cluster

2011-05-02 Thread Richard Nadeau
things run OK. Rick On May 2, 2011 9:18 AM, "Richard Nadeau" wrote: > I would change "mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum" to one. With your > setting > > On May 2, 2011 8:48 AM, "baran cakici" wrote: >> without job; >> >>