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CellCounter dumps all cell coordinates into its output, which can become huge.
The spill can fill the local disk on the reducer.
CellCounter hardcodes mapreduce.job.reduces to 1, so it is not possible to use multiple reducers to get around this.
Fixing this is easy, by not hardcoding mapreduce.job.reduces, it still defaults to 1, but can be overriden by the user.
CellCounter also generates two extra records with constant keys for each cell, which have to be processed by the reducer.
Even with multiple reducers, these (1/3 of the totcal records) will go the same reducer, which can also fill up the disk.
This can be fixed by adding a Combiner to the Mapper, which sums the counter records, thereby reducing the Mapper output records to 1/3 of their previous amount, which can be evenly distibuted between the reducers.
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