I think what you want is the section "Task Execution & Environment" in http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/mapred_tutorial.html http://hadoop.apache.org/core/docs/current/mapred_tutorial.html . Here is a sample from that document:
<property> <name>mapred.child.java.opts</name> <value> -Xmx512M -Djava.library.path=/home/mycompany/lib -verbose:gc -Xloggc:/tmp/@tas...@.gc -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false </value> </property> -Marc Tarandeep wrote: > > Hi, > > While submitting a job to Hadoop, how can I set system properties that are > required by my code ? > Passing -Dmy.prop=myvalue to the hadoop job command is not going to work > as > hadoop command will pass this to my program as command line argument. > > Is there any way to achieve this ? > > Thanks, > Taran > > * > > * > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/How-to-set-System-property-for-my-job-tp18896188p23264520.html Sent from the Hadoop core-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.