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How can you set the mappers and reducers for a MapReduce job?

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The number of mappers and reducers can be set in the command line using:

-D mapred.map.tasks=5 –D mapred.reduce.tasks=2

In the code, one can configure JobConf variables:

job.setNumMapTasks(5); // 5 mappers

job.setNumReduceTasks(2); // 2 reducers

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