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[SPARK-16650] Improve documentation of spark.task.maxFailures

Clarify documentation on spark.task.maxFailures

No tests run as its documentation

Author: Tom Graves <[email protected]>

Closes #14287 from tgravescs/SPARK-16650.

(cherry picked from commit 6c56fff118ff2380c661456755db17976040de66)
Signed-off-by: Sean Owen <[email protected]>


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Commit: fb944a1e85a4d0e618cf7485afb0d0b39367fbda
Parents: 0cc36ca
Author: Tom Graves <[email protected]>
Authored: Fri Jul 22 12:41:38 2016 +0100
Committer: Sean Owen <[email protected]>
Committed: Fri Jul 22 12:41:46 2016 +0100

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 docs/configuration.md | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/docs/configuration.md b/docs/configuration.md
index 1e95b86..86a9bd9 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.md
+++ b/docs/configuration.md
@@ -1188,7 +1188,9 @@ Apart from these, the following properties are also 
available, and may be useful
   <td><code>spark.task.maxFailures</code></td>
   <td>4</td>
   <td>
-    Number of individual task failures before giving up on the job.
+    Number of failures of any particular task before giving up on the job.
+    The total number of failures spread across different tasks will not cause 
the job
+    to fail; a particular task has to fail this number of attempts.
     Should be greater than or equal to 1. Number of allowed retries = this 
value - 1.
   </td>
 </tr>


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