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Subject: output/input ratio > 1 for map tasks?
From: brisk <mylinqiao@gmail.com>
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Hi,

Does anybody know if there are some cases where the output/input ratio for
map tasks is larger than 1? I can just think of for the sort, it's 1 and
for the search job it's usually smaller than 1...

Thanks,
Ethan

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