[jira] Resolved: (HADOOP-93) allow minimum split size configurable

["Doug Cutting (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-93?page=all ]
     
Doug Cutting resolved HADOOP-93:
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    Resolution: Fixed
     Assign To: Doug Cutting

Okay, I have applied this.

For the record, patches are easier to apply if they are made from the root of the project.  Also, new config properties should generally be added to hadoop-default.xml.  Finally, the cast added in SequenceFileInputFormat was not required.

> allow minimum split size configurable
> -------------------------------------
>
>          Key: HADOOP-93
>          URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-93
>      Project: Hadoop
>         Type: Bug
>   Components: mapred
>     Versions: 0.1
>     Reporter: Hairong Kuang
>     Assignee: Doug Cutting
>      Fix For: 0.1
>  Attachments: hadoop-93.fix
>
> The current default split size is the size of a block (32M) and a SequenceFile sets it to be SequenceFile.SYNC_INTERVAL(2K). We currently have a Map/Reduce application working on crawled docuements. Its input data consists of 356 sequence files, each of which is of a size around 30G. A jobtracker takes forever to launch the job because it needs to generate 356*30G/2K map tasks!
> The proposed solution is to let the minimum split size configurable so that the programmer can control the number of tasks to generate.

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