[jira] Commented: (PIG-196) Pig should use '-reducer NONE' for map-only jobs

["Benjamin Reed (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Benjamin Reed commented on PIG-196:
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This patch looks like it assumes that splitSpec is not null if there isn't a groupSpec. It would be nice to add a comment stating that assumption and justifying it. Looking back at MapReduceLauncher doesn't hint that this is the case. I think it is important so that later changes do not break the justification for this assumption. (Or at least it will give the person debugging a hint at where to look.)

> Pig should use '-reducer NONE' for map-only jobs
> ------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PIG-196
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-196
>             Project: Pig
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Arun C Murthy
>            Assignee: Arun C Murthy
>         Attachments: PIG-196_0_20080412.patch
>
>
> Currently, for map-only jobs, Pig writes map-outputs directly to HDFS and then sends zero data to reducers. The problem with this is two fold:
>  * Reduce slots are unnecessarily wasted on the cluster
>  * Reduces write empty files to HDFS putting pressure on the Namenode
> Both these can we very easily avoided by just calling:
> {noformat}
> job.setNumReduces(0);
> {noformat}
> and letting Hadoop Map-Reduce take care of writing map-outputs directly to HDFS.

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