pretty sure I know the answer, but just wanted to confirm ... if a map reduce is hitting governance, there's nothing I can really do, besides try and split it up further?

Which stage is hitting limits?

reduce() ... sorry, I badly phrased the question

What are you doing in the reduce stage?

looping through records grouped together by the map(), fetching data and compiling it all together

You can try fetching data in the map stage to remove the need to loop and fetch in the reduce

yeah I do fetch some in the map already, I might be able to offland a little bit more

that's all I can think of

thanks

and just make sure to use record.lookupFields when possible over record.load