How to change a number of mappers running on a slave in MapReduce?



How to change a number of mappers running on a slave in MapReduce?..

Answer / Ravi Ranjan

The number of mappers can be changed by setting the property 'mapred.tasktracker.map.tasks.maximum' in the task tracker configuration.

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