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Update tuning.md

Clarify when serializer is used based on recent user@ mailing list discussion.

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Commit: 08afef37a07c501b1ba14e3d6da445712852ca1e
Parents: eb4296c
Author: Andrew Ash <[email protected]>
Authored: Mon Nov 25 17:08:52 2013 -0800
Committer: Andrew Ash <[email protected]>
Committed: Mon Nov 25 17:08:52 2013 -0800

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@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ in your operations) and performance. It provides two 
serialization libraries:
   for best performance.
 
 You can switch to using Kryo by calling 
`System.setProperty("spark.serializer", 
"org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializer")`
-*before* creating your SparkContext. The only reason it is not the default is 
because of the custom
+*before* creating your SparkContext. This setting configures the serializer 
used for not only shuffling data between worker
+nodes but also when serializing RDDs to disk.  The only reason Kryo is not the 
default is because of the custom
 registration requirement, but we recommend trying it in any network-intensive 
application.
 
 Finally, to register your classes with Kryo, create a public class that extends

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