That is not exactly correct -- that being said I'm not 100% on these
details either so I'd appreciate you double checking and / or another dev
confirming my description.
Spark actually has more threads going then the "numCores" you specify.
"numCores" is really used for how many threads are actively executing
tasks. There are more threads for doing the fetching (the details of which
I'm not that familiar with) -- that never cuts into the number of actively
executing tasks for "numCores". There isn't a 1-to-1 correspondence
between one shuffle block and one task -- a shuffle-read task most likely
needs to fetch many shuffle blocks, with some local and some remote (in
most cases). So, from your lingo above, c is numCores, but c_1 is just an
independent pool of threads.
this obvious follow up question is, if you've actually more than "numCores"
threads going at the same time, how come cpu usage is low? You could still
have your cpus stuck waiting on i/o, from disk or network, so they aren't
getting fully utilized. And the cpu can also be idle waiting for memory,
if there are a lot of cache misses (I'm not sure how that will show up in
cpu monitoring). If that were the case, that could even be from too many
threads, as a lot of time is spent context switching ... but I'm just
guessing now.
hope this helps,
Imran
On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 1:41 PM, Mike Hynes <91m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Imran,
>
> Thank you again for your email.
>
> I just want to ask one further question to clarify the implementation
> of the shuffle block fetches. When you say that rather than sitting
> idle, [the executor] will immediately start reading the local block, I
> would guess that, in implementation, the executor is going to launch
> concurrent threads to read both local and remote blocks, which it
> seems to do in the initialize() method of
> core/.../storage/ShuffleBlockFetcherIterator.scala. Is that the case
> or would the Executor run all local fetch threads first?
>
> The reason I ask is that if the slave machine on which the Executor is
> running has some number of cores, c, then I would have thought that
> some of the threads launched would occupy some number, c_1, of the
> cores and conduct the local reads (where c_1 <= c). The other threads
> would occupy the other (c - c_1) cores' cycles until *all* necessary
> blocks have been read, and depending on c and the number of blocks to
> fetch so that none of the cores are idle if there are many blocks to
> fetch. (I monitor the CPU utilization of our nodes throughout a job,
> and generally find them under-utilized statistically speaking; that
> is, their usage over the whole job is lower than expected, with short
> burst of high usage, so I ask this question in a specific way for this
> reason, since I can see trends in the probability density functions of
> CPU utilization as the #partitions of our RDDs are increased).
>
> ShuffleBlockFetcherIterator.scala:
>
> private[this] def initialize(): Unit = {
> ...
> // Send out initial requests for blocks, up to our maxBytesInFlight
> while (fetchRequests.nonEmpty &&
> (bytesInFlight == 0 || bytesInFlight + fetchRequests.front.size
> <= maxBytesInFlight)) {
> sendRequest(fetchRequests.dequeue())
> }
> val numFetches = remoteRequests.size - fetchRequests.size
> logInfo("Started " + numFetches + " remote fetches in" +
> Utils.getUsedTimeMs(startTime))
>
> // Get Local Blocks
> fetchLocalBlocks()
> logDebug("Got local blocks in " + Utils.getUsedTimeMs(startTime))
> }
> private[this] def fetchLocalBlocks() {
> val iter = localBlocks.iterator
> while (iter.hasNext) {
> val blockId = iter.next()
> try {
> val buf = blockManager.getBlockData(blockId)
> shuffleMetrics.incLocalBlocksFetched(1)
> shuffleMetrics.incLocalBytesRead(buf.size)
> buf.retain()
> results.put(new SuccessFetchResult(blockId, 0, buf))
> } catch {
> ...
> }
> }
> }
>
> Obviously, I will have to sit down with core/.../network/nio/* and
> core/.../shuffle/* and do my own homework on this, but from what I can
> tell, the BlockDataManager relies on either
> NioBlockTransferService.scala or the NettyBlockTransferService.scala
> (which are set in SparkEnv.scala), both of which do the grunt work of
> actually buffering and transferring the blocks' bytes. Finally, the
> tasks in new stage for which the shuffle outputs have been fetched
> will not commence until all of the block fetching threads (both local
> and remote) have terminated.
>
> Does the above paint an accurate picture? I would really appreciate
> clarification on the concurrency, since I would like to determine why
> our jobs have under-utilization and poor weak scaling efficiency.
>
> I will cc this thread over to the dev list. I did not cc them in case
> my previous question was trivial---I didn't want to spam the list
> unnecessarily, since I do not see these kinds of questions posed there
> frequently.
>
> Thanks a bunch,
> Mike
>
>
> On 6/10/15, Imran Rashid <iras...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > no, this is a good question, I can see how my response could be
> interpreted
> > both ways.
> >
> > To be more precise:
> > *nothing* is fetched until the shuffle-read stage starts. So it is
> normal
> > to see a spike in cluster bandwidth when that stage starts. There is a
> > hard-boundary between stages -- that is, spark never starts any tasks in
> > one stage until *all* tasks in the dependent stages have been completed.
> > (There has been on-and-off discussion about relaxing this, but IMO this
> is
> > unlikely to change in the near future.) So spark will wait for all of
> the
> > tasks in the previous shuffle-write stage to finish, and then kick off a
> > bunch of shuffle-read tasks in the next stage, leading to the spike you
> > see.
> >
> > I was referring to the way blocks are fetched within one of those
> > shuffle-read tasks. One of those tasks is will probably going to need a
> > bunch of different blocks, from many executors. But some of the blocks
> it
> > needs will probably exist locally. So the task first sends out a request
> > to fetch blocks remotely (leading to the spike), but rather than sitting
> > idle, it will immediately start reading the local blocks. Ideally, by
> the
> > time its done reading the local blocks, some of the remote blocks have
> > already been fetched, so no time is spent *waiting* for the remote reads.
> > As the remote blocks get read, spark sends out more requests, trying to
> > balance how much data needs to be buffered vs. preventing any waiting on
> > remote reads (which can be controlled by spark.reducer.maxSizeInFlight).
> >
> > Hope that clarifies things!
> >
> > btw, you sent this last question to just me -- I think its a good
> question,
> > do you mind sending it to the list? I figured that was accidental but
> > wanted to check.
> >
> > Imran
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:20 AM, Mike Hynes <91m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Imran,
> >> One additional quick question---I just want to confirm that I fully
> >> understand your comment that "blocks are fetched before they are
> >> needed." Typically on our system, we see spikes in cluster bandwidth
> >> (with ganglia) at stage boundaries, so I previously assumed that all
> >> shuffle read occurred there. Do you mean that the blocks are fetched
> >> by the shuffle read iterator, and hence when tasks occur afterwards
> >> the necessary blocks have already been fetched?
> >> Thanks---I am sorry if this is an obvious question, but I'd like to
> >> understand this as precisely as possible.
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> On 6/10/15, Mike Hynes <91m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Ahhh---forgive my typo: what I mean is,
> >> > (t2 - t1) >= (t_ser + t_deser + t_exec)
> >> > is satisfied, empirically.
> >> >
> >> > On 6/10/15, Mike Hynes <91m...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> Hi Imran,
> >> >>
> >> >> Thank you for your email.
> >> >>
> >> >> In examing the condition (t2 - t1) < (t_ser + t_deser + t_exec), I
> >> >> have found it to be true, although I have not included the
> >> >> t_{wait_for_read} in this, since it is---so far as I can tell---been
> >> >> either zero or negligible compared to the task time.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks,
> >> >> Mike
> >> >>
> >> >> On 6/8/15, Imran Rashid <iras...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> >> >>> Hi Mike,
> >> >>>
> >> >>> all good questions, let me take a stab at answering them:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> 1. Event Logs + Stages:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Its normal for stages to get skipped if they are shuffle map stages,
> >> >>> which
> >> >>> get read multiple times. Eg., here's a little example program I
> >> >>> wrote
> >> >>> earlier to demonstrate this: "d3" doesn't need to be re-shuffled
> >> >>> since
> >> >>> each
> >> >>> time its read w/ the same partitioner. So skipping stages in this
> >> >>> way
> >> >>> is
> >> >>> a
> >> >>> good thing:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> val partitioner = new org.apache.spark.HashPartitioner(10)
> >> >>> val d3 = sc.parallelize(1 to 100).map { x => (x % 10) ->
> >> >>> x}.partitionBy(partitioner)
> >> >>> (0 until 5).foreach { idx =>
> >> >>> val otherData = sc.parallelize(1 to (idx * 100)).map{ x => (x %
> 10)
> >> ->
> >> >>> x}.partitionBy(partitioner)
> >> >>> println(idx + " ---> " + otherData.join(d3).count())
> >> >>> }
> >> >>>
> >> >>> If you run this, f you look in the UI you'd see that all jobs except
> >> for
> >> >>> the first one have one stage that is skipped. You will also see
> this
> >> in
> >> >>> the log:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> 15/06/08 10:52:37 INFO DAGScheduler: Parents of final stage:
> >> >>> List(Stage
> >> >>> 12,
> >> >>> Stage 13)
> >> >>>
> >> >>> 15/06/08 10:52:37 INFO DAGScheduler: Missing parents: List(Stage 13)
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Admittedly that is not very clear, but that is sort of indicating to
> >> you
> >> >>> that the DAGScheduler first created stage 12 as a necessary step,
> and
> >> >>> then
> >> >>> later on changed its mind by realizing that everything it needed for
> >> >>> stage
> >> >>> 12 already existed, so there was nothing to do.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> 2. Extracting Event Log Information
> >> >>>
> >> >>> maybe you are interested in SparkListener ? Though unfortunately, I
> >> >>> don't
> >> >>> know of a good blog post describing it, hopefully the docs are clear
> >> ...
> >> >>>
> >> >>> 3. Time Metrics in Spark Event Log
> >> >>>
> >> >>> This is a great question. I *think* the only exception is that t_gc
> >> >>> is
> >> >>> really overlapped with t_exec. So I think you should really expect
> >> >>>
> >> >>> (t2 - t1) < (t_ser + t_deser + t_exec)
> >> >>>
> >> >>> I am not 100% sure about this, though. I'd be curious if that was
> >> >>> constraint was ever violated.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> As for your question on shuffle read vs. shuffle write time -- I
> >> >>> wouldn't
> >> >>> necessarily expect the same stage to have times for both shuffle
> read
> >> >>> &
> >> >>> shuffle write -- in the simplest case, you'll have shuffle write
> >> >>> times
> >> >>> in
> >> >>> one, and shuffle read times in the next one. But even taking that
> >> >>> into
> >> >>> account, there is a difference in the way they work & are measured.
> >> >>> shuffle read operations are pipelined and the way we measure
> shuffle
> >> >>> read,
> >> >>> its just how much time is spent *waiting* for network transfer. It
> >> >>> could
> >> >>> be that there is no (measurable) wait time b/c the next blocks are
> >> >>> fetched
> >> >>> before they are needed. Shuffle writes occur in the normal task
> >> >>> execution
> >> >>> thread, though, so we (try to) measure all of it.
> >> >>>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Mike Hynes <91m...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> Hi Patrick and Akhil,
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Thank you both for your responses. This is a bit of an extended
> >> >>>> email,
> >> >>>> but I'd like to:
> >> >>>> 1. Answer your (Patrick) note about the "missing" stages since the
> >> >>>> IDs
> >> >>>> do (briefly) appear in the event logs
> >> >>>> 2. Ask for advice/experience with extracting information from the
> >> >>>> event logs in a columnar, delimiter-separated format.
> >> >>>> 3. Ask about the time metrics reported in the event logs;
> currently,
> >> >>>> the elapsed time for a task does not equal the sum of the times for
> >> >>>> its components
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> 1. Event Logs + Stages:
> >> >>>> =========================
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> As I said before, In the spark logs (the log4j configurable ones
> >> >>>> from
> >> >>>> the driver), I only see references to some stages, where the stage
> >> >>>> IDs
> >> >>>> are not arithmetically increasing. In the event logs, however, I
> >> >>>> will
> >> >>>> see reference to *every* stage, although not all stages will have
> >> >>>> tasks associated with them.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> For instance, to examine the actual stages that have tasks, you can
> >> >>>> see missing stages:
> >> >>>> # grep -E '"Event":"SparkListenerTaskEnd"' app.log \
> >> >>>> # | grep -Eo '"Stage ID":[[:digit:]]+' \
> >> >>>> # | sort -n|uniq | head -n 5
> >> >>>> "Stage ID":0
> >> >>>> "Stage ID":1
> >> >>>> "Stage ID":10
> >> >>>> "Stage ID":11
> >> >>>> "Stage ID":110
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> However, these "missing" stages *do* appear in the event logs as
> >> >>>> Stage
> >> >>>> IDs in the jobs submitted, i.e: for
> >> >>>> # grep -E '"Event":"SparkListenerJobStart"' app.log | grep -Eo
> >> >>>> 'Stage
> >> >>>> IDs":\[.*\]' | head -n 5
> >> >>>> Stage IDs":[0,1,2]
> >> >>>> Stage IDs":[5,3,4]
> >> >>>> Stage IDs":[6,7,8]
> >> >>>> Stage IDs":[9,10,11]
> >> >>>> Stage IDs":[12,13,14]
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> I do not know if this amounts to a bug, since I am not familiar
> with
> >> >>>> the scheduler in detail. The stages have seemingly been created
> >> >>>> somewhere in the DAG, but then have no associated tasks and never
> >> >>>> appear again.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> 2. Extracting Event Log Information
> >> >>>> ====================================
> >> >>>> Currently we are running scalability tests, and are finding very
> >> >>>> poor
> >> >>>> scalability for certain block matrix algorithms. I would like to
> >> >>>> have
> >> >>>> finer detail about the communication time and bandwidth when data
> is
> >> >>>> transferred between nodes.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> I would really just like to have a file with nothing but task info
> >> >>>> in
> >> >>>> a format such as:
> >> >>>> timestamp (ms), task ID, hostname, execution time (ms), GC time
> >> >>>> (ms),
> >> >>>> ...
> >> >>>> 0010294, 1, slave-1, 503, 34, ...
> >> >>>> 0010392, 2, slave-2, 543, 32, ...
> >> >>>> and similarly for jobs/stages/rdd_memory/shuffle output/etc.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> I have extracted the relevant time fields from the spark event logs
> >> >>>> with a sed script, but I wonder if there is an even more expedient
> >> >>>> way. Unfortunately, I do not immediately see how to do this using
> >> >>>> the
> >> >>>> $SPARK_HOME/conf/metrics.properties file and haven't come across a
> >> >>>> blog/etc that describes this. Could anyone please comment on
> whether
> >> >>>> or not a metrics configuation for this already exists?
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> 3. Time Metrics in Spark Event Log
> >> >>>> ==================================
> >> >>>> I am confused about the times reported for tasks in the event log.
> >> >>>> There are launch and finish timestamps given for each task (call
> >> >>>> them
> >> >>>> t1 and t2, respectively), as well as GC time (t_gc), execution time
> >> >>>> (t_exec), and serialization times (t_ser, t_deser). However the
> >> >>>> times
> >> >>>> do not add up as I would have expected. I would imagine that the
> >> >>>> elapsed time t2 - t1 would be slightly larger than the sum of the
> >> >>>> component times. However, I can find many instances in the event
> >> >>>> logs
> >> >>>> where:
> >> >>>> (t2 - t1) < (t_gc + t_ser + t_deser + t_exec)
> >> >>>> The difference can be 500 ms or more, which is not negligible for
> my
> >> >>>> current execution times of ~5000 ms. I have attached a plot that
> >> >>>> illustrates this.
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Regarding this, I'd like to ask:
> >> >>>> 1. How exactly are these times are being measured?
> >> >>>> 2. Should the sum of the component times equal the elapsed (clock)
> >> >>>> time for the task?
> >> >>>> 3. If not, which component(s) is(are) being excluded, and when do
> >> >>>> they
> >> >>>> occur?
> >> >>>> 4. There are occasionally reported measurements for Shuffle Write
> >> >>>> time, but not shuffle read time. Is there a method to determine the
> >> >>>> time required to shuffle data? Could this be done by look at delays
> >> >>>> between the first task in a new stage and the last task in the
> >> >>>> previous stage?
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> Thank you very much for your time,
> >> >>>> Mike
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> On 6/7/15, Patrick Wendell <pwend...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>>> > Hey Mike,
> >> >>>> >
> >> >>>> > Stage ID's are not guaranteed to be sequential because of the way
> >> the
> >> >>>> > DAG scheduler works (only increasing). In some cases stage ID
> >> numbers
> >> >>>> > are skipped when stages are generated.
> >> >>>> >
> >> >>>> > Any stage/ID that appears in the Spark UI is an actual stage, so
> >> >>>> > if
> >> >>>> > you see ID's in there, but they are not in the logs, then let us
> >> know
> >> >>>> > (that would be a bug).
> >> >>>> >
> >> >>>> > - Patrick
> >> >>>> >
> >> >>>> > On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Akhil Das
> >> >>>> > <ak...@sigmoidanalytics.com>
> >> >>>> > wrote:
> >> >>>> >> Are you seeing the same behavior on the driver UI? (that running
> >> >>>> >> on
> >> >>>> >> port
> >> >>>> >> 4040), If you click on the stage id header you can sort the
> >> >>>> >> stages
> >> >>>> >> based
> >> >>>> >> on
> >> >>>> >> IDs.
> >> >>>> >>
> >> >>>> >> Thanks
> >> >>>> >> Best Regards
> >> >>>> >>
> >> >>>> >> On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Mike Hynes <91m...@gmail.com>
> >> >>>> >> wrote:
> >> >>>> >>>
> >> >>>> >>> Hi folks,
> >> >>>> >>>
> >> >>>> >>> When I look at the output logs for an iterative Spark program,
> I
> >> >>>> >>> see
> >> >>>> >>> that the stage IDs are not arithmetically numbered---that is,
> >> there
> >> >>>> >>> are gaps between stages and I might find log information about
> >> >>>> >>> Stage
> >> >>>> >>> 0, 1,2, 5, but not 3 or 4.
> >> >>>> >>>
> >> >>>> >>> As an example, the output from the Spark logs below shows what
> I
> >> >>>> >>> mean:
> >> >>>> >>>
> >> >>>> >>> # grep -rE "Stage [[:digit:]]+" spark_stderr | grep finished
> >> >>>> >>> 12048:INFO:DAGScheduler:Stage 0 (mapPartitions at
> >> >>>> >>> blockMap.scala:1444)
> >> >>>> >>> finished in 7.820 s:
> >> >>>> >>> 15994:INFO:DAGScheduler:Stage 1 (map at blockMap.scala:1810)
> >> >>>> >>> finished
> >> >>>> >>> in 3.874 s:
> >> >>>> >>> 18291:INFO:DAGScheduler:Stage 2 (count at blockMap.scala:1179)
> >> >>>> >>> finished in 2.237 s:
> >> >>>> >>> 20121:INFO:DAGScheduler:Stage 4 (map at blockMap.scala:1817)
> >> >>>> >>> finished
> >> >>>> >>> in 1.749 s:
> >> >>>> >>> 21254:INFO:DAGScheduler:Stage 5 (count at blockMap.scala:1180)
> >> >>>> >>> finished in 1.082 s:
> >> >>>> >>> 23422:INFO:DAGScheduler:Stage 7 (map at blockMap.scala:1810)
> >> >>>> >>> finished
> >> >>>> >>> in 2.078 s:
> >> >>>> >>> 24773:INFO:DAGScheduler:Stage 8 (count at blockMap.scala:1188)
> >> >>>> >>> finished in 1.317 s:
> >> >>>> >>> 26455:INFO:DAGScheduler:Stage 10 (map at blockMap.scala:1817)
> >> >>>> >>> finished
> >> >>>> >>> in 1.638 s:
> >> >>>> >>> 27228:INFO:DAGScheduler:Stage 11 (count at blockMap.scala:1189)
> >> >>>> >>> finished in 0.732 s:
> >> >>>> >>> 27494:INFO:DAGScheduler:Stage 14 (foreach at
> >> >>>> >>> blockMap.scala:1302)
> >> >>>> >>> finished in 0.192 s:
> >> >>>> >>> 27709:INFO:DAGScheduler:Stage 17 (foreach at
> >> >>>> >>> blockMap.scala:1302)
> >> >>>> >>> finished in 0.170 s:
> >> >>>> >>> 28018:INFO:DAGScheduler:Stage 20 (count at blockMap.scala:1201)
> >> >>>> >>> finished in 0.270 s:
> >> >>>> >>> 28611:INFO:DAGScheduler:Stage 23 (map at blockMap.scala:1355)
> >> >>>> >>> finished
> >> >>>> >>> in 0.455 s:
> >> >>>> >>> 29598:INFO:DAGScheduler:Stage 24 (count at blockMap.scala:274)
> >> >>>> >>> finished in 0.928 s:
> >> >>>> >>> 29954:INFO:DAGScheduler:Stage 27 (map at blockMap.scala:1355)
> >> >>>> >>> finished
> >> >>>> >>> in 0.305 s:
> >> >>>> >>> 30390:INFO:DAGScheduler:Stage 28 (count at blockMap.scala:275)
> >> >>>> >>> finished in 0.391 s:
> >> >>>> >>> 30452:INFO:DAGScheduler:Stage 32 (first at
> >> >>>> >>> MatrixFactorizationModel.scala:60) finished in 0.028 s:
> >> >>>> >>> 30506:INFO:DAGScheduler:Stage 36 (first at
> >> >>>> >>> MatrixFactorizationModel.scala:60) finished in 0.023 s:
> >> >>>> >>>
> >> >>>> >>> Can anyone comment on this being normal behavior? Is it
> >> >>>> >>> indicative
> >> >>>> >>> of
> >> >>>> >>> faults causing stages to be resubmitted? I also cannot find the
> >> >>>> >>> missing stages in any stage's parent List(Stage x, Stage y,
> ...)
> >> >>>> >>>
> >> >>>> >>> Thanks,
> >> >>>> >>> Mike
> >> >>>> >>>
> >> >>>> >>>
> >> >>>> >>> On 6/1/15, Reynold Xin <r...@databricks.com> wrote:
> >> >>>> >>> > Thanks, René. I actually added a warning to the new JDBC
> >> >>>> reader/writer
> >> >>>> >>> > interface for 1.4.0.
> >> >>>> >>> >
> >> >>>> >>> > Even with that, I think we should support throttling JDBC;
> >> >>>> >>> > otherwise
> >> >>>> >>> > it's
> >> >>>> >>> > too convenient for our users to DOS their production database
> >> >>>> servers!
> >> >>>> >>> >
> >> >>>> >>> >
> >> >>>> >>> > /**
> >> >>>> >>> > * Construct a [[DataFrame]] representing the database
> table
> >> >>>> >>> > accessible
> >> >>>> >>> > via JDBC URL
> >> >>>> >>> > * url named table. Partitions of the table will be
> >> >>>> >>> > retrieved
> >> >>>> >>> > in
> >> >>>> >>> > parallel
> >> >>>> >>> > based on the parameters
> >> >>>> >>> > * passed to this function.
> >> >>>> >>> > *
> >> >>>> >>> > * * Don't create too many partitions in parallel on a large
> >> >>>> cluster;
> >> >>>> >>> > otherwise Spark might crash*
> >> >>>> >>> > * * your external database systems.*
> >> >>>> >>> > *
> >> >>>> >>> > * @param url JDBC database url of the form
> >> >>>> >>> > `jdbc:subprotocol:subname`
> >> >>>> >>> > * @param table Name of the table in the external database.
> >> >>>> >>> > * @param columnName the name of a column of integral type
> >> that
> >> >>>> will
> >> >>>> >>> > be
> >> >>>> >>> > used for partitioning.
> >> >>>> >>> > * @param lowerBound the minimum value of `columnName` used
> >> >>>> >>> > to
> >> >>>> >>> > decide
> >> >>>> >>> > partition stride
> >> >>>> >>> > * @param upperBound the maximum value of `columnName` used
> >> >>>> >>> > to
> >> >>>> >>> > decide
> >> >>>> >>> > partition stride
> >> >>>> >>> > * @param numPartitions the number of partitions. the
> range
> >> >>>> >>> > `minValue`-`maxValue` will be split
> >> >>>> >>> > * evenly into this many partitions
> >> >>>> >>> > * @param connectionProperties JDBC database connection
> >> >>>> >>> > arguments,
> >> >>>> a
> >> >>>> >>> > list
> >> >>>> >>> > of arbitrary string
> >> >>>> >>> > * tag/value. Normally at least
> >> >>>> >>> > a
> >> >>>> "user"
> >> >>>> >>> > and
> >> >>>> >>> > "password" property
> >> >>>> >>> > * should be included.
> >> >>>> >>> > *
> >> >>>> >>> > * @since 1.4.0
> >> >>>> >>> > */
> >> >>>> >>> >
> >> >>>> >>> >
> >> >>>> >>> > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 1:54 AM, René Treffer <
> >> rtref...@gmail.com>
> >> >>>> >>> > wrote:
> >> >>>> >>> >
> >> >>>> >>> >> Hi,
> >> >>>> >>> >>
> >> >>>> >>> >> I'm using sqlContext.jdbc(uri, table, where).map(_ =>
> >> >>>> >>> >> 1).aggregate(0)(_+_,_+_) on an interactive shell (where
> >> >>>> >>> >> "where"
> >> >>>> >>> >> is
> >> >>>> an
> >> >>>> >>> >> Array[String] of 32 to 48 elements). (The code is tailored
> >> >>>> >>> >> to
> >> >>>> >>> >> your
> >> >>>> >>> >> db,
> >> >>>> >>> >> specifically through the where conditions, I'd have
> otherwise
> >> >>>> >>> >> post
> >> >>>> >>> >> it)
> >> >>>> >>> >> That should be the DataFrame API, but I'm just trying to
> load
> >> >>>> >>> >> everything
> >> >>>> >>> >> and discard it as soon as possible :-)
> >> >>>> >>> >>
> >> >>>> >>> >> (1) Never do a silent drop of the values by default: it
> kills
> >> >>>> >>> >> confidence.
> >> >>>> >>> >> An option sounds reasonable. Some sort of insight / log
> >> >>>> >>> >> would
> >> >>>> >>> >> be
> >> >>>> >>> >> great.
> >> >>>> >>> >> (How many columns of what type were truncated? why?)
> >> >>>> >>> >> Note that I could declare the field as string via
> >> >>>> >>> >> JdbcDialects
> >> >>>> (thank
> >> >>>> >>> >> you
> >> >>>> >>> >> guys for merging that :-) ).
> >> >>>> >>> >> I have quite bad experiences with silent drops / truncates
> of
> >> >>>> columns
> >> >>>> >>> >> and
> >> >>>> >>> >> thus _like_ the strict way of spark. It causes trouble but
> >> >>>> >>> >> noticing
> >> >>>> >>> >> later
> >> >>>> >>> >> that your data was corrupted during conversion is even
> worse.
> >> >>>> >>> >>
> >> >>>> >>> >> (2) SPARK-8004
> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-8004
> >> >>>> >>> >>
> >> >>>> >>> >> (3) One option would be to make it safe to use, the other
> >> option
> >> >>>> >>> >> would
> >> >>>> >>> >> be
> >> >>>> >>> >> to document the behavior (s.th. like "WARNING: this method
> >> tries
> >> >>>> >>> >> to
> >> >>>> >>> >> load
> >> >>>> >>> >> as many partitions as possible, make sure your database can
> >> >>>> >>> >> handle
> >> >>>> >>> >> the
> >> >>>> >>> >> load
> >> >>>> >>> >> or load them in chunks and use union"). SPARK-8008
> >> >>>> >>> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-8008
> >> >>>> >>> >>
> >> >>>> >>> >> Regards,
> >> >>>> >>> >> Rene Treffer
> >> >>>> >>> >>
> >> >>>> >>> >
> >> >>>> >>>
> >> >>>> >>>
> >> >>>> >>> --
> >> >>>> >>> Thanks,
> >> >>>> >>> Mike
> >> >>>> >>>
> >> >>>> >>>
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> >> >>>> >>>
> >> >>>> >>
> >> >>>> >
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> --
> >> >>>> Thanks,
> >> >>>> Mike
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>>
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> >> >>>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> Thanks,
> >> >> Mike
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Thanks,
> >> > Mike
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Thanks,
> >> Mike
> >>
> >
>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Mike
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