I believe that this is a special quota in mapreduce implemented by the framework itself. It's designed to limit the speed that it can consume resources, so that
mapreduce does not run through available app engine quota too quickly. It looks like it denotes the maximum overall rate of map() calls/second.
Try increasing the mapreduce.mapper.inputprocessingrate
property in the configuration for your map job.
Or, just to test, you can change the default, defined in mapreduce/AppEngineJobContext.java
:
public static final int DEFAULT_MAP_INPUT_PROCESSING_RATE = 1000;