Github user Ben-Zvi commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/761#discussion_r103068736 --- Diff: exec/java-exec/src/main/java/org/apache/drill/exec/physical/impl/xsort/managed/ExternalSortBatch.java --- @@ -948,50 +1027,50 @@ private void updateMemoryEstimates(long memoryDelta, RecordBatchSizer sizer) { // spill batches of either 64K records, or as many records as fit into the // amount of memory dedicated to each spill batch, whichever is less. - spillBatchRowCount = (int) Math.max(1, spillBatchSize / estimatedRowWidth); + spillBatchRowCount = (int) Math.max(1, preferredSpillBatchSize / estimatedRowWidth / 2); --- End diff -- This factor of 2 seems extremely cautious; we may pay a little in performance every time, just for that.
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