My bad, I just fired up a spark-shell and created a new sparkContext and it was working fine. I basically did a parallelize and collect with both sparkContexts.
Thanks Best Regards On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Tobias Pfeiffer <t...@preferred.jp> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Akhil Das <ak...@sigmoidanalytics.com> > wrote: >> >> That doc was created during the initial days (Spark 0.8.0), you can of >> course create multiple sparkContexts in the same driver program now. >> > > You sure about that? According to > http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Is-spark-context-in-local-mode-thread-safe-td7275.html > (June 2014), "you currently can’t have multiple SparkContext objects in the > same JVM". > > Tobias > > >
