A job design consists of an input Sequential Files stage, a Sort stage, followed by a Transformer stage and an output Sequential File stage. In the input Sequential Files stage, the "Number of…

A job design consists of an input Sequential Files stage, a Sort stage, followed by a Transformer stage and an output Sequential File stage. In the input Sequential Files stage, the "Number of readers per node" property has been set to 3. The job is run on an SMP machine with a configuration file defined with 3 nodes. The $APT_DISABLE_COMBINATION variable is set to True. How many player processes will this job generate?