After upgrading to Spark 1.0.1 from 0.9.1 everything seemed to be going well. Looking at the Mesos slave logs, I noticed:
ERROR KryoSerializer: Failed to run spark.kryo.registrator java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com/mediacrossing/verrazano/kryo/MxDataRegistrator My spark-env.sh has the following when I run the Spark Shell: export MESOS_NATIVE_LIBRARY=/usr/local/lib/libmesos.so export MASTER=mesos://zk://n-01:2181,n-02:2181,n-03:2181/masters export ADD_JARS=/opt/spark/mx-lib/verrazano-assembly.jar # -XX:+UseCompressedOops must be disabled to use more than 32GB RAM SPARK_JAVA_OPTS="-Xss2m -XX:+UseCompressedOops -Dspark.local.dir=/opt/mesos-tmp -Dspark.executor.memory=4g -Dspark.serializer=org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializer -Dspark.kryo.registrator=com.mediacrossing.verrazano.kryo.MxDataRegistrator -Dspark.kryoserializer.buffer.mb=16 -Dspark.akka.askTimeout=30" I was able to verify that our custom jar was being copied to each worker, but for some reason it is not finding my registrator class. Is anyone else struggling with Kryo on 1.0.x branch?