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Thank you! I actually just an hour ago came across that solution when reading this, so I already implemented the solution you suggested, but was still waiting to see if it'd balance out evenly before I posted:   http://www.slideshare.net/cloudera/hadoop-troubleshooting-101-kate-ting-cloudera   Regardless, thank you very much for your help in resolving this issue.   ... View more