Hello,
We just recently switched to using lzo compressed file input for our hadoop
cluster using Kevin Weil's lzo library. The files are pretty uniform in
size at around 200MB compressed. Our block size is 256MB. Decompressed the
average LZO input file is around 1.0GB. I noticed lots of our jo
ance for miscellaneous applications.
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> Your other option of running a map per 32MB or 64MB of input should give
> you better performance if your map task execution time is significant (i.e.,
> much larger than a few seconds) compared to the overhead of launching map
> tasks an