Documenting the newly added spark properties.
Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-spark/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-spark/commit/dca946ff Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-spark/tree/dca946ff Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-spark/diff/dca946ff Branch: refs/heads/master Commit: dca946ff6779cda9c50ae0069734b7802bb4d24a Parents: 560e44a Author: Prashant Sharma <[email protected]> Authored: Tue Nov 26 20:44:47 2013 +0530 Committer: Prashant Sharma <[email protected]> Committed: Tue Nov 26 20:47:38 2013 +0530 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- docs/configuration.md | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator-spark/blob/dca946ff/docs/configuration.md ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/docs/configuration.md b/docs/configuration.md index 97183ba..25e7cec 100644 --- a/docs/configuration.md +++ b/docs/configuration.md @@ -275,12 +275,33 @@ Apart from these, the following properties are also available, and may be useful </tr> <tr> <td>spark.akka.timeout</td> - <td>20</td> + <td>60</td> <td> Communication timeout between Spark nodes, in seconds. </td> </tr> <tr> + <td>spark.akka.pauses</td> + <td>60</td> + <td> + Acceptable heart beat pause in seconds for akka, tune this if you expect GC pauses or network delays (reconnections) etc. + </td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td>spark.akka.failure-detector.threshold</td> + <td>12.0</td> + <td> + Tuning this is not recommended unless you are sure what you are doing. This maps to akka's `akka.remote.transport-failure-detector.threshold`. Usually having a larger value of `spark.akka.pauses` should suffice. + </td> +</tr> +<tr> + <td>spark.akka.heartbeat.interval</td> + <td>5</td> + <td> + A larger interval value in seconds reduces network overhead and a smaller value might be more informative for akka's failure detector. Tune this in combination of `spark.akka.pauses` and `spark.akka.failure-detector.threshold` if you need to. + </td> +</tr> +<tr> <td>spark.driver.host</td> <td>(local hostname)</td> <td>
