RE: Performance Tunning

2011-06-28 Thread Michael Segel
becomes the next constraint. Really the xeon chipsets are really good. HTH -Mike From: matthew.go...@monsanto.com To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: RE: Performance Tunning Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:46:40 + Mike, I'm not really sure I have seen a community consensus around

RE: Performance Tunning

2011-06-28 Thread GOEKE, MATTHEW (AG/1000)
- From: Michael Segel [mailto:michael_se...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 1:31 PM To: common-user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: RE: Performance Tunning Matthew, I understood that Juan was talking about a 2 socket quad core box. We run boxes with the e5500 (xeon quad core ) chips. Linux

RE: Performance Tunning

2011-06-27 Thread GOEKE, MATTHEW (AG/1000)
If you are running default configurations then you are only getting 2 mappers and 1 reducer per node. The rule of thumb I have gone on (and back up by the definitive guide) is 2 processes per core so: tasktracker/datanode and 6 slots left. How you break it up from there is your call but I would

Re: Performance Tunning

2011-06-27 Thread Juan P.
Matt, Thanks for your help! I think I get it now, but this part is a bit confusing: * * *so: tasktracker/datanode and 6 slots left. How you break it up from there is your call but I would suggest either 4 mappers / 2 reducers or 5 mappers / 1 reducer.* * * If it's 2 processes per core, then it's:

Re: Performance Tunning

2011-06-27 Thread Juan P.
Ok, So I tried putting the following config in the mapred-site.xml of all of my nodes configuration property namemapred.job.tracker/name valuename-node:54311/value /property property namemapred.map.tasks/name value7/value /property property