[jira] Commented: (MAPREDUCE-200) mapred.map.tasks and mapred.reduce.tasks should be determined automatically by default

["Allen Wittenauer (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Allen Wittenauer commented on MAPREDUCE-200:
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I know the bug is still open, etc, but has there been any movement on this?  Reducing the number of params to configure would be a good thing, and this one seems to be particularly good to eliminate.

> mapred.map.tasks and mapred.reduce.tasks should be determined automatically by default
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>                 Key: MAPREDUCE-200
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-200
>             Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Doug Cutting
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> The default values for mapred.map.tasks and mapred.reduce.tasks should be empty or -1, signalling that the framework should use an dynamically-determined default.  An appropriate default is perhaps the number of map and reduce slots in the cluster, since FileInputFormat interprets mapred.map.tasks as a minimum.
> This would remove a common area of misconfiguration.

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