Thanks for all your help.
My pig script may have some cpu-intensive job like nlp processing, so it
would be helpful if I have multiple mappers running. Correct me if I am
On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:40 AM, Scott Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> You can also turn off split combination completely and then the number
> of mappers will equal the number of blocks
> SET pig.noSplitCombination false;
> Adding mappers may not make your process run faster since the time to
> read the data may be less than the overhead of creating a new JVM for
> each map task.