Yes - I believe we use the local dirs for spilling as well.

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Tom Hubregtsen <thubregt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just one line of context, since last post mentioned this would help:
> I'm currently writing my masters thesis (Computer Engineering) on storage
> and memory in both Spark and Hadoop.
>
> Right now I'm trying to analyze the spilling behavior of Spark, and I do not
> see what I expect. Therefor, I want to be sure that I am looking at the
> correct location.
>
> If I set spark.local.dir and SPARK_LOCAL_DIRS to, for instance, ~/temp
> instead of /tmp. Will this be the location where all data will be spilled
> to? I assume it is, based on the description of spark.local.dir at
> https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/configuration.html:
> "Directory to use for "scratch" space in Spark, including map output files
> and RDDs that get stored on disk."
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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