Need a better answer for "how many reduces?" --------------------------------------------
Key: MAPREDUCE-1206 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-1206 Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce Issue Type: Bug Reporter: Allen Wittenauer http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/mapred_tutorial.html#Reducer --snip-- How Many Reduces? The right number of reduces seems to be 0.95 or 1.75 multiplied by (<no. of nodes> * mapred.tasktracker.reduce.tasks.maximum). --snip-- Sure, if you only ever run one job on your grid. There should really be a better answer here, especially explaining what the impact is of a high/low number when chaining multiple map/reduce jobs. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.