Custom counters in combiner

[Amit Sela <am...@infolinks.com>]

Hi all,

I'm running a mapreduce job that has custom counters incremented in the
combiner's reduce function.
Looking at the mapreduce web UI I see that, like all counters, its has
three columns: Map, Reduce and Total.
>From what I know, the combiner is executed on the map output, hence runs in
Mapper (?).
The strange thing is that I see the counter incrementing in both the Map
and Reduce columns...

If the combiner runs on the Mapper output, locally on the Mapper, why do I
see reduce counts as well ?

Thanks,
Amit.