Github user pwendell commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/43#discussion_r10226896 --- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/storage/BlockFetcherIterator.scala --- @@ -146,6 +146,12 @@ object BlockFetcherIterator { } protected def splitLocalRemoteBlocks(): ArrayBuffer[FetchRequest] = { + // Make remote requests at most maxBytesInFlight / 5 in length; the reason to keep them + // smaller than maxBytesInFlight is to allow multiple, parallel fetches from up to 5 + // nodes, rather than blocking on reading output from one node. + val maxRequestSize = math.max(maxBytesInFlight / 5, 1L) --- End diff -- because it's the maximum allowable request size and not the minimum.
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