Earning Points. Starwood's Preferred Guest program is fairly straightforward: the more nights you spend at participating hotels, the faster you'll earn a free night.
As seen in the EXECUTING phase, the map will write (using Mapper.Context.write()) its output into a circular in-memory buffer (MapTask.MapOutputBuffer). The size of this buffer is fixed and determined by the configuration parameter mapreduce.task.io.sort.mb (default: 100MB).
By default, Foxrun.pif runs the specified external program in a window. In Visual FoxPro, the FoxPro Run Command window is closed after the external program or command is finished executing. You can use the Windows PIF editor to customize Foxrun.pif.