Re: Merging files

2013-08-03 Thread Hailey Charlie
How big are your 50 files? How long are the reducers taking? - HC On Jul 30, 2013, at 10:26 PM, Something Something mailinglist...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, One of our pig scripts creates over 500 small part files. To save on namespace, we need to cut down the # of files, so instead of

Re: Merging files

2013-07-31 Thread John Meagher
It is file size based, not file count based. For fewer files up the max-file-blocks setting. On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Something Something mailinglist...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, John. But I don't see an option to specify the # of output files. How does Crush decide how many files to

Re: Merging files

2013-07-30 Thread Ben Juhn
How big are your 50 files? How long are the reducers taking? On Jul 30, 2013, at 10:26 PM, Something Something mailinglist...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, One of our pig scripts creates over 500 small part files. To save on namespace, we need to cut down the # of files, so instead of saving