There is a lengthy discussion about this on the JIRA: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-2243
On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 1:43 PM Herman van Hövell tot Westerflier < hvanhov...@questtec.nl> wrote: > Just out of curiousity. What is the use case for having multiple active > contexts in a single JVM? > > Kind regards, > > Herman van Hövell > > 2016-01-27 19:41 GMT+01:00 Ashish Soni <asoni.le...@gmail.com>: > >> There is a property you need to set which is >> spark.driver.allowMultipleContexts=true >> >> Ashish >> >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 1:39 PM, Jakob Odersky <ja...@odersky.com> wrote: >> >>> A while ago, I remember reading that multiple active Spark contexts >>> per JVM was a possible future enhancement. >>> I was wondering if this is still on the roadmap, what the major >>> obstacles are and if I can be of any help in adding this feature? >>> >>> regards, >>> --Jakob >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org >>> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@spark.apache.org >>> >>> >> >
